Companion Auto Update Vulnerabilities

The Companion Auto Update plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘update_delay_days’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 3.9.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level access, t...

CVSS:

5.5

Affected:

up to 3.9.2

Fixed in:

3.9.3

Disclosed:

Jul 14, 2025

CVE-2025-4369 on NVD →

The Companion Auto Update plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection in versions up to, and including, 3.3.5 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on several existing SQL queries. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrative pr...

CVSS:

7.2

Affected:

up to 3.3.6

Fixed in:

3.3.6

Disclosed:

Jan 14, 2019

The Companion Auto Update plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 3.2.0. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the cau_frontend function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to include local files via a forged request granted...

CVSS:

8.8

Affected:

up to 3.2.1

Fixed in:

3.2.1

Disclosed:

Oct 2, 2018

CVE-2018-20972 on NVD →

The companion-auto-update plugin before 3.2.1 for WordPress has local file inclusion via $_GET['tab'].'.php' parameter in /companion-auto-update.php.

CVSS:

9.8

Affected:

up to 3.2.1

Fixed in:

3.2.1

Disclosed:

Oct 1, 2018

CVE-2018-20973 on NVD →