Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerability in Swifty Page Manager for WordPress
CVE-2023-0088

8.8HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor

Wordpress
Status
Swifty Page Manager
Vendor
CVE Published:
5 January 2023

What is CVE-2023-0088?

The Swifty Page Manager plugin for WordPress is susceptible to Cross-Site Request Forgery due to inadequate nonce validation in AJAX actions responsible for page management. Attackers can exploit this flaw by tricking site administrators into triggering unintended actions, which can lead to unauthorized creation or deletion of pages. This vulnerability poses significant risks, especially in environments where user roles are not adequately managed.

Affected Version(s)

Swifty Page Manager * <= 3.0.1

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id...
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/swifty-page-ma...

CVSS V3.1

Score:
8.8
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
High
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
Required
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Marco Wotschka
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