Cross-Site Request Forgery in WP Meta SEO Plugin for WordPress
CVE-2023-1029

4.3MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor

Wordpress
Status
WP Meta SEO
Vendor
CVE Published:
24 February 2023

What is CVE-2023-1029?

The WP Meta SEO plugin for WordPress has a security flaw that enables unauthenticated attackers to exploit it through Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF). This vulnerability arises from insufficient nonce validation in the regenerateSitemaps function, allowing attackers to induce site administrators into executing unauthorized actions, including regenerating Sitemaps, without their consent.

Affected Version(s)

WP Meta SEO * <= 4.5.3

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id...
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2870465/wp-m...

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
.
The Cyber Security Vulnerability Database.