CVE-2023-49854
NixOS vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

A Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability was discovered in Tribe Interactive's Caddy – Smart Side Cart for WooCommerce plugin, affecting versions through 1.9.7. The vulnerability was identified on December 7, 2023, and was assigned CVE-2023-49854 (Patchstack).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as CWE-352 (Cross-Site Request Forgery) and received varying CVSS scores: 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) from NIST NVD, and a Medium severity score of 5.4 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L) from Patchstack. The issue stems from the plugin's lack of CSRF checks in certain areas (WPScan).

Impact

The vulnerability could allow attackers to make logged-in users perform unwanted actions through CSRF attacks. This security issue falls under the OWASP Top 10 category A2: Broken Authentication and Session Management (WPScan).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability has been fixed in version 1.9.8 of the Caddy plugin. Users are advised to update to this version or later to remove the vulnerability. The security issue is considered to have a low severity impact and is unlikely to be exploited (Patchstack).

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