Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerability in Wicked Folders Plugin for WordPress
CVE-2023-0728

4.3MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor
Wordpress
Status
Wicked Folders
Vendor
CVE Published:
7 February 2023

Summary

The Wicked Folders plugin for WordPress is susceptible to a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability due to inadequate nonce validation in its ajax_save_folder function. This flaw allows unauthenticated attackers to craft requests that could manipulate the folder structure of the plugin, provided they can deceive an administrator into triggering the malicious request. Users are urged to update to the latest version to mitigate this risk.

Affected Version(s)

Wicked Folders * <= 2.18.16

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id...
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wicked-folders...
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&s...

CVSS V3.1

Score:
4.3
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
Low
Availability:
None
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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