CVE-2023-5448

Summary

The WP Register Profile With Shortcode plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 3.5.9. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the update_password_validate function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to reset a user's password via a forged request granted they can trick the user into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Affected Software

Weaknesses

• CWE-352: CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ca564941-4780-4da2-b937-c9bd45966d81?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3018102

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

• SSVC:
• Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical Impact: total

References

• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ca564941-4780-4da2-b937-c9bd45966d81?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3018102
• https://research.cleantalk.org/cve-2023-5448-wp-register-profile-with-shortcode-csrf-to-password-reset-poc/

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