CVE-2023-46193
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

A Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability was identified in the Internet Marketing Ninjas Internal Link Building WordPress plugin, affecting versions 1.2.3 and below. The vulnerability was discovered by LEE SE HYOUNG and was disclosed on October 18, 2023. This security issue received the identifier CVE-2023-46193 (Patchstack).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) issue, identified as CWE-352. It received varying CVSS scores from different sources: NIST assigned 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), while Patchstack rated it as medium severity with a score of 4.3 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N) (NVD).

Impact

The vulnerability could allow malicious actors to force higher privileged users to execute unwanted actions under their current authentication. The attack requires user interaction but does not require authentication to exploit (Patchstack).

Exploitability

The vulnerability is classified as having a low severity impact and is considered unlikely to be exploited. It can be triggered by unauthenticated users, though it requires user interaction to be successful (Patchstack).

Mitigation and workarounds

As of the disclosure, no official fix has been made available for this vulnerability. Given its low severity rating, virtual patching was deemed unnecessary by security researchers (Patchstack).

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