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Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2023-46617
CVE-2023-46617:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability affects AdFoxly – Ad Manager, AdSense Ads & Ads.Txt WordPress plugin versions up to and including 1.8.5. The vulnerability was discovered on October 22, 2023, and publicly disclosed on November 28, 2023 (Patchstack).
Technical details
The vulnerability exists due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on several functions in the ~/includes/class-adfoxly-ajax.php file. The CVSS v3.1 base score is 8.8 (HIGH) according to NIST assessment (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H), while Patchstack rates it as 5.4 (MEDIUM) (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L). The vulnerability is classified as CWE-352: Cross-Site Request Forgery (WPScan).
Impact
This vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to modify several settings via a forged request if they can trick a site's user into performing an action such as clicking on a link (WPScan).
Mitigation and workarounds
Currently, there is no official fix available for this vulnerability. The security issue has been classified as having a low severity impact and is considered unlikely to be exploited (Patchstack).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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