PT-2023-16243 · WordPress · Social Warfare

Marco Wotschka · Published 2023-01-19 · Updated 2024-01-25 · CVE-2023-0402

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.4

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Social Warfare plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 4.3.0

Description The issue is related to authorization bypass due to a missing capability check on several AJAX actions. This allows authenticated attackers with subscriber-level permissions and above to delete post meta information and reset network access tokens.

Recommendations For Social Warfare plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 4.3.0, update to a version higher than 4.3.0 to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the affected AJAX actions until a patch is available.

Exploit

Fix

Missing Authorization

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-862

Related Identifiers

CVE-2023-0402

Affected Products

Social Warfare

References · 8

• 🔥 https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/social-warfare/trunk/lib/options/SWP_Options_Page.php?rev=2364155#L923 · Exploit
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=2844092%40social-warfare&new=2844092%40social-warfare&sfp_email=&sfph_mail= · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-0402 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-0402 · Vendor Advisory
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4bc4ba2c-32eb-46c5-bb40-7c0150fc1ca4?source=cve · Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/42845 · Telegram Post
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4bc4ba2c-32eb-46c5-bb40-7c0150fc1ca4 · Note
• https://twitter.com/LeonidsLabs/status/1750533951372894463 · Twitter Post