CVE-2023-6805
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The RSS Aggregator by Feedzy – Feed to Post, Autoblogging, News & YouTube Video Feeds Aggregator plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Blind Server-Side Request Forgery (CVE-2023-6805) in versions up to and including 4.4.7. This vulnerability was discovered and disclosed on December 13, 2023, affecting the fetch_feed functionality of the plugin (CVE Mitre).

Technical details

The vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with contributor access and above to make web requests to arbitrary locations originating from the web application. The issue was initially fixed for contributor-level users in version 4.4.7 and subsequently addressed for author-level users in version 4.4.8. The vulnerability has received a CVSS v3 base score of 8.6, indicating Critical severity, with the attack vector being Network-based, requiring Low attack complexity, and no privileges or user interaction needed (Red Hat CVE).

Impact

The vulnerability can potentially lead to unauthorized modification of information from internal services. According to the CVSS scoring details, the impact includes low confidentiality and integrity breaches, but high availability impact. The buffer overflow vulnerability could potentially be exploited to achieve code execution, which could compromise system security (Red Hat CVE).

Exploitability

The vulnerability is exploitable by authenticated users with contributor-level access or higher. The attack requires low complexity and can be executed remotely through the network without requiring user interaction (Red Hat CVE).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability has been patched in version 4.4.7 for contributor-level users and version 4.4.8 for author-level users. Users are advised to update to the latest version of the plugin to mitigate this security risk (CVE Mitre).

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