Responsive Gallery Grid <= 2.3.13 - Cross-Site Request Forgery
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 2.3.14
- Affected Plugin
- Responsive Gallery Grid
- Affected Version
<= 2.3.13- CVSS
- 5.4Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-352 · Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
- CVE
CVE-2023-41659
At a glance
CVE-2023-41659 is a medium-severity Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Responsive Gallery Grid WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 2.3.13. It carries a CVSS score of 5.4 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 2.3.14; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed September 2023, reported by Rio Darmawan.
Vulnerability Overview
The Responsive Gallery Grid plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 2.3.13. This is due to missing nonce validation on the rgg_options_page() 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.
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)
Responsive Gallery Grid <= 2.3.13 carries this weakness at rgg_options_page(), 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 Responsive Gallery Grid the fix is 2.3.14: builds <= 2.3.13 are affected, anything from 2.3.14 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 2.3.14, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to Responsive Gallery Grid: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Responsive Gallery Grid 2.3.14 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Firewall
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