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CVE-2023-35041: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

A Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability leading to Local File Inclusion (LFI) was discovered in the Webpushr Web Push Notifications WordPress plugin versions 4.34.0 and below. The vulnerability was reported on June 8, 2023, by security researcher Theodoros Malachias and was assigned CVE-2023-35041 (Patchstack).

Technical details

The vulnerability 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. This indicates that the vulnerability can be exploited remotely, requires low attack complexity, needs no privileges, but does require user interaction. The vulnerability is classified under CWE-352 (Cross-Site Request Forgery) (NVD).

Impact

The vulnerability could allow a malicious actor to force higher privileged users to execute unwanted actions under their current authentication, potentially leading to unauthorized file access through Local File Inclusion (Patchstack).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability has been fixed in version 4.35.0 of the Webpushr Web Push Notifications plugin. Users are advised to update to version 4.35.0 or later to remove the vulnerability (Patchstack).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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