CVE Catalog

CVE-2023-4276

HighCVSS 8.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.28%

19th percentile - higher than 19% of all known CVEs

Summary

The Absolute Privacy plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to and including 2.1. This is due to missing nonce validation on the 'abpr_profileShortcode' function, allowing unauthenticated attackers to change user email and password via a forged request.

Risk Assessment

Attackers can exploit this vulnerability to take over an administrator's account, leading to serious security breaches and loss of user data.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update the Absolute Privacy plugin to the latest version to mitigate this vulnerability and implement additional security measures such as nonce verification.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

The Absolute Privacy plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 2.1. This is due to missing nonce validation on the 'abpr_profileShortcode' function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to change user email and password via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

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