CVE-2023-47687
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

A Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability was identified in VJInfotech's Woo Custom and Sequential Order Number WordPress plugin, affecting versions 2.6.0 and below. The vulnerability was initially reported on July 19, 2023, by researcher Nguyen Xuan Chien and was publicly disclosed on November 9, 2023 (Patchstack).

Technical details

The vulnerability has been assigned CVE-2023-47687 and is classified as CWE-352 (Cross-Site Request Forgery). 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 and can be initiated by unauthenticated users (Patchstack).

Mitigation and workarounds

As of the latest reports, no official fix is available for this vulnerability. The issue has been classified as low priority, with Patchstack indicating that a virtual patch is unnecessary due to the low severity impact (Patchstack).

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