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CVE-2023-52123:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
A Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability was discovered in WPChill Strong Testimonials WordPress plugin, affecting versions through 3.1.10. The vulnerability was disclosed on December 28, 2023, and was assigned CVE-2023-52123 (Patchstack).
Technical details
The vulnerability is classified as CWE-352 (Cross-Site Request Forgery) and received varying CVSS v3.1 scores: a high severity score of 8.8 (NIST) with vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H, and a medium severity score of 4.3 (Patchstack) with vector 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 attackers to make logged-in administrators perform unwanted actions via CSRF attacks, specifically targeting the plugin's settings update functionality (WPScan).
Mitigation and workarounds
The vulnerability has been fixed in version 3.1.11 of the Strong Testimonials plugin. Users are advised to update to this version or later to remove the vulnerability (Patchstack).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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