CVE-2023-25455

WordPress Social Login and Register <= 7.6.0 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Arbitrary Content Deletion

2023-02-13 00:00
Rafshanzani Suhada

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 7.6.1
Affected Plugin
Social Login, Social Sharing by miniOrange
Affected Version
<= 7.6.0
CVSS
5.3Medium
Weakness type
CWE-862 · Missing Authorization
CVE
CVE-2023-25455
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At a glance

CVE-2023-25455 is a medium-severity Missing Authorization vulnerability in the Social Login, Social Sharing by miniOrange WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 7.6.0. It carries a CVSS score of 5.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 7.6.1; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed February 2023, reported by Rafshanzani Suhada.

Vulnerability Overview

The WordPress Social Login and Register plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Missing Authorization in versions up to, and including, 7.6.0. This is due to a missing capability check on the 'mo_openid_login_validate' (and possibly 'end_new_tour2' and 'mo_openid_show_apps') functions. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete social profile data and potentially perform other tasks.

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, and no interaction from a victim user.

CWE-862: Missing Authorization

Social Login, Social Sharing by miniOrange <= 7.6.0 carries this weakness at mo_openid_login_validate, and reaching it takes no account at all. A missing authorization check means a function is reachable by anyone who can reach the endpoint, because the code never asks whether the caller is allowed to perform the action.

Any user who can reach the endpoint gets to run an action reserved for higher-privileged roles, from reading protected data to changing settings or content. For Social Login, Social Sharing by miniOrange the fix is 7.6.1: builds <= 7.6.0 are affected, anything from 7.6.1 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 7.6.1, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

This one needs no account at all, which puts it outside what login hardening can reach; WordSec's login security narrows the account-level paths around it, and the firewall is what inspects the request itself. None of that substitutes for the fix: Social Login, Social Sharing by miniOrange 7.6.1 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

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External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-25455https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/021a25c9-7fad-425f-8104-bb4852603613https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-25455

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