CVE-2023-6493

Depicter Slider – Responsive Image Slider, Video Slider & Post Slider <= 2.0.6 - Cross-Site Request Forgery via save

2024-01-04 00:00
Rafshanzani Suhada

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 2.0.7
Affected Plugin
Depicter — Popup & Slider Builder
Affected Version
<= 2.0.6
CVSS
4.3Medium
Weakness type
CWE-352 · Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE
CVE-2023-6493
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At a glance

CVE-2023-6493 is a medium-severity Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Depicter WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 2.0.6. It carries a CVSS score of 4.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 2.0.7; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed January 2024, reported by Rafshanzani Suhada.

Vulnerability Overview

The Depicter Slider – Responsive Image Slider, Video Slider & Post Slider plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.6. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the 'save' function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to modify the plugin's settings via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link. CVE-2023-51491 appears to be a duplicate of this issue.

Technical Analysis

The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no privileges on the target site.

CWE-352: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Depicter <= 2.0.6 carries this weakness at save, and reaching it takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. Cross-site request forgery abuses the fact that browsers attach a victim's cookies to any request, so a state-changing action that only checks who you are, not whether you meant to act, can be triggered from another site.

An attacker who gets a logged-in user to load a crafted page can perform that action as them, with the impact scaling to whatever the victim's role is allowed to do. For Depicter the fix is 2.0.7: builds <= 2.0.6 are affected, anything from 2.0.7 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 2.0.7, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to Depicter: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Depicter 2.0.7 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Firewall
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-6493https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c9c907ea-3ab4-4674-8945-ade4f6ff2679https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-6493

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