WP News <= 1.1.9 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Arbitrary Plugin Activation

2023-02-28 00:00

István Márton

Strategic Overview

Status

Patched in 1.2.0

Affected PluginWP News – WordPress News / Magazine Plugin

Affected Version<= 1.1.9

CVSS4.3Medium

CVECVE-2023-0502

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Vulnerability Overview

The WP News plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 1.1.9. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the 'plugin_activation' function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to activate arbitrary plugins already installed (but deactivated) on the site via a 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 1.2.0, 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-2023-0502 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f53e9354-248f-4d13-a1c0-8355b268fae2

CVSS Vector

4.3

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

Base

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

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