CVE-2023-47553
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

A Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability was discovered in User Local Inc's UserHeat Plugin for WordPress, affecting versions up to 1.1.6. The vulnerability was reported on May 31, 2023, and was officially published on November 7, 2023, receiving the identifier CVE-2023-47553 (Patchstack).

Technical details

The vulnerability has been assigned CWE-352 (Cross-Site Request Forgery) classification. According to the National Vulnerability Database, 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, while Patchstack assessed it with a CVSS score of 5.4 (MEDIUM) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L (NVD).

Impact

The vulnerability could allow a malicious actor to force higher privileged users to execute unwanted actions under their current authentication. The severity impact is considered low to high, depending on the scoring system used (Patchstack).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability has been fixed in version 1.1.11 of the UserHeat Plugin. Users are advised to update to version 1.1.11 or later to remove the vulnerability. Patchstack users can enable auto-update for vulnerable plugins (Patchstack).

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