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CVE-2023-49834:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
A Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability was discovered in the FOX – Currency Switcher Professional for WooCommerce plugin, affecting versions through 1.4.1.4. The vulnerability was reported on October 31, 2023, and was publicly disclosed on December 5, 2023 (Patchstack).
Technical details
The vulnerability has been assigned CVE-2023-49834 and is classified as CWE-352 (Cross-Site Request Forgery). It received varying CVSS v3.1 scores: 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 5.4 (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 malicious actors to force higher privileged users to execute unwanted actions under their current authentication. The impact is considered to have low severity and is unlikely to be exploited (Patchstack).
Mitigation and workarounds
The vulnerability has been fixed in version 1.4.1.5 of the plugin. Users are advised to update to version 1.4.1.5 or later to remove the vulnerability (Patchstack).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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