Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2023-46188

CVE-2023-46188:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

A Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability was discovered in the Freesoul Deactivate Plugins WordPress plugin versions up to 2.1.3. The vulnerability was identified on October 17, 2023, and was assigned CVE-2023-46188. The security issue was discovered by researcher Abdi Pranata (Wordfence).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as a Broken Access Control issue with a CVSS score of 4.3 (Medium). The security flaw stems from missing authorization, authentication, or nonce token checks in certain functions, potentially allowing unprivileged users to execute higher privileged actions (Patchstack).

Impact

The vulnerability has been assessed as having a low severity impact and is considered unlikely to be exploited. It could potentially allow subscriber-level users to perform unauthorized actions within the plugin's functionality (Patchstack).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability has been fixed in version 2.1.4 of the Freesoul Deactivate Plugins. Users are advised to update to version 2.1.4 or later to remove the vulnerability. Additionally, Patchstack has issued a virtual patch to mitigate this issue by blocking potential attacks until users update to the fixed version (Patchstack).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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