CVE-2023-29428
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

A Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability was discovered in the SuPlugins Superb Social Media Share Buttons and Follow Buttons WordPress plugin versions 1.1.3 and below. The vulnerability was identified on March 17, 2023, and publicly disclosed on April 6, 2023, by security researcher Abdi Pranata (Patchstack).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as CWE-352 (Cross-Site Request Forgery) and has been assigned CVE-2023-29428. It received a CVSS v3.1 base score of 8.8 (HIGH) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H, indicating a high-severity issue with network attack vector, low attack complexity, no privileges required, and user interaction required (NVD).

Impact

The vulnerability represents a broken access control issue where there is a missing authorization, authentication, or nonce token check in a function. This could potentially allow an unprivileged user to execute certain higher privileged actions (Patchstack).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability has been fixed in version 1.1.5 of the plugin. Users are advised to update to version 1.1.5 or later to remove the vulnerability. Patchstack users can enable auto-update for vulnerable plugins (Patchstack).

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