Cross-Site Request Forgery in Thumbnail Carousel Slider Plugin for WordPress
CVE-2023-5821

6.5MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor
Wordpress
Status
Thumbnail carousel slider
Vendor
CVE Published:
27 October 2023

Summary

The Thumbnail carousel slider plugin for WordPress has a security flaw allowing unauthenticated attackers to issue requests that could delete sliders in bulk. This vulnerability stems from a lack of nonce validation in the deleteselected function. An attacker could exploit this by tricking a site administrator into clicking a malicious link, thereby executing the delete action without proper authorization.

Affected Version(s)

Thumbnail carousel slider 1.0

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id...
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-responsive-thumbnail-slider
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/1263536/wp-r...

CVSS V3.1

Score:
6.5
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
High
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
Required
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Ala Arfaoui
.