CVE-2023-48286
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

A Broken Access Control vulnerability was identified in the WordPress Accept Stripe Payments plugin versions 2.0.79 and earlier. The vulnerability was discovered by Joshua Chan and was publicly disclosed on November 23, 2023. This security issue was assigned the identifier CVE-2023-48286 (Patchstack).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as a Broken Access Control issue, which stems from missing authorization, authentication, or nonce token checks in certain functions. This could potentially allow unprivileged users to execute higher privileged actions. The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS severity score of 8.2, categorizing it as Low severity despite the high CVSS score (Patchstack).

Impact

The vulnerability's impact is considered low severity and is deemed unlikely to be exploited. The specific impact varies case by case due to the nature of broken access control vulnerabilities (Patchstack).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability has been fixed in version 2.0.80 of the WordPress Accept Stripe Payments plugin. Users are advised to update to version 2.0.80 or later to remediate this security issue (Patchstack).

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