Social Warfare <= 4.3.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

2023-01-05 00:00

Marco Wotschka

Strategic Overview

Status

Patched in 4.4.0

Affected PluginSocial Sharing Plugin – Social Warfare

Affected Version<= 4.3.1

CVSS5.4Medium

CVECVE-2023-0403

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Vulnerability Overview

The Social Warfare plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 4.3.1. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on several AJAX actions. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete post meta information and reset network access tokens, via forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Technical Analysis

REMEDIATION: Update to version 4.4.0, or a newer patched version --- IDENTIFIER: CWE-352 (Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)) The web application does not, or cannot, sufficiently verify whether a request was intentionally provided by the user who sent the request, which could have originated from an unauthorized actor.

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-0403 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a36d1bb1-9446-4042-a1ec-08a3ffdcb744

CVSS Vector

5.4

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionRequired
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityNone
IntegrityLow
AvailabilityLow

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