CVE-2023-6294
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The Popup Builder WordPress plugin before version 4.2.6 contains a security vulnerability identified as CVE-2023-6294. The plugin fails to properly validate a parameter before making a request to it, which could enable users with administrator privileges to perform Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) attacks in Multisite WordPress configurations (WPScan).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified with multiple CWE identifications including CWE-22 (Path Traversal), CWE-918 (Server-Side Request Forgery), and CWE-352 (Cross-Site Request Forgery). The CVSS v3.1 base score is 7.2 (High) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H, indicating that the vulnerability requires high privileges but can potentially lead to high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability (NVD).

Impact

If exploited, this vulnerability could allow authenticated administrators to perform SSRF attacks and read local files in Multisite WordPress configurations. The attacker could potentially access sensitive system files or make unauthorized requests to internal services (WPScan).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability has been fixed in version 4.2.6 of the Popup Builder plugin. Users are advised to update to this version or later to mitigate the security risk (WPScan).

Additional resources


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