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CVE-2023-50902: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

A Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability was identified in WPExpertsio's New User Approve WordPress plugin, affecting versions up to and including 2.5.1. The vulnerability was discovered on August 31, 2023, and publicly disclosed on December 26, 2023 (Patchstack).

Technical details

The vulnerability has been assigned CVE-2023-50902 and is classified as CWE-352 (Cross-Site Request Forgery). It received varying CVSS 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 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

The vulnerability has been fixed in version 2.5.2 of the New User Approve plugin. Users are advised to update to version 2.5.2 or later to remove the vulnerability. Patchstack users can enable auto-update for vulnerable plugins (Patchstack).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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