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CVE-2023-48282:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
A Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability was discovered in Andrea Landonio's Taxonomy filter WordPress plugin, affecting all versions up to and including 2.2.9. The vulnerability was reported on July 20, 2023, and publicly disclosed on November 23, 2023 (Patchstack).
Technical details
The vulnerability is classified as a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) issue, identified as CVE-2023-48282. It received a CVSS v3.1 base score of 8.8 (HIGH) from NIST with a vector string of CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H, while Patchstack assigned a CVSS score of 5.4 (MEDIUM) with 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 impact is considered low severity and is unlikely to be exploited in most scenarios (Patchstack).
Mitigation and workarounds
The vulnerability has been fixed in version 2.2.10 of the Taxonomy filter plugin. Users are advised to update to version 2.2.10 or later to remove the vulnerability (Patchstack).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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