CVE Catalog

CVE-2023-3179

HighCVSS 8.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.32%

24th percentile - higher than 24% of all known CVEs

Summary

The POST SMTP Mailer WordPress plugin before 2.5.7 does not have proper CSRF checks in some AJAX actions, which could allow attackers to make logged in users with the manage_postman_smtp capability resend an email to an arbitrary address.

Risk Assessment

An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to take over a user account, for example by resending a password reset email to an address they control.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update the POST SMTP Mailer plugin to version 2.5.7 or later to mitigate this vulnerability.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

The POST SMTP Mailer WordPress plugin before 2.5.7 does not have proper CSRF checks in some AJAX actions, which could allow attackers to make logged in users with the manage_postman_smtp capability resend an email to an arbitrary address (for example a password reset email could be resent to an attacker controlled email, and allow them to take over an account).

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS