Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 1.0.2
- Affected Plugin
- Form Block
- Affected Version
< 1.0.2- CVSS
- 4.3Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-352 · Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
- CVE
CVE-2023-30616
At a glance
CVE-2023-30616 is a medium-severity Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Form Block WordPress plugin, affecting versions < 1.0.2. 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 1.0.2; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed April 2023, reported by Daniel Ruf.
Vulnerability Overview
The Form Block plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 1.0.1. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the get_requests() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to submit forms on behalf of another user via a forged request granted they can trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
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)
Form Block < 1.0.2 carries this weakness at get_requests(), 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 Form Block the fix is 1.0.2: builds < 1.0.2 are affected, anything from 1.0.2 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 1.0.2, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to Form Block: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Form Block 1.0.2 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Firewall
- Alerts
External References
Related records
Other vulnerabilities in Form Block
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