CVE-2023-23804
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability was discovered in HasThemes HT Feed WordPress plugin versions 1.2.7 and below. The vulnerability was publicly disclosed on July 10, 2023, and was assigned CVE-2023-23804. The issue was fixed in version 1.2.8 (Patchstack).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as CWE-352 (Cross-Site Request Forgery). It received varying CVSS v3.1 scores: a high severity score of 8.8 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H) from NVD and a medium severity score of 4.3 from Patchstack (NVD, WPScan).

Impact

The vulnerability could allow malicious actors to force higher privileged users to execute unwanted actions under their current authentication. The attack can be performed by unauthenticated users (Patchstack).

Mitigation and workarounds

Users are advised to update to HT Feed plugin version 1.2.8 or later to remediate this vulnerability. Patchstack users can enable auto-update for vulnerable plugins (Patchstack).

Additional resources


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