CVE-2023-25697

GamiPress <= 2.5.6 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to User Earnings Deletion

2023-02-14 00:00
Dave Jong

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 2.5.7
Affected Plugin
GamiPress – Gamification plugin to reward points, badges & ranks in WordPress, now with AI
Affected Version
<= 2.5.6
CVSS
4.3Medium
Weakness type
CWE-352 · Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE
CVE-2023-25697
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At a glance

CVE-2023-25697 is a medium-severity Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the GamiPress WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 2.5.6. 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 2.5.7; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed February 2023, reported by Dave Jong.

Vulnerability Overview

The GamiPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 2.5.6. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the bulk_delete function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to invoke this function via forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link and results in the bulk deletion of user earnings.

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)

Reaching this weakness in GamiPress <= 2.5.6 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 GamiPress the fix is 2.5.7: builds <= 2.5.6 are affected, anything from 2.5.7 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 2.5.7, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to GamiPress: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: GamiPress 2.5.7 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Firewall
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-25697https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ff4b757a-9ede-496b-b559-cf952d39fe70https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-25697

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