CVE-2023-7065

Summary

The Stop Spammers Security | Block Spam Users, Comments, Forms plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 2024.4. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the sfs_process AJAX action. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to add arbitrary IPs to the plugin's allowlist and blocklist via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Affected Software

Weaknesses

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

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

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

CVE Program Container

Additional References

• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/1998cadb-2eb3-4819-aa7c-59e4f777c7f8?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3080581%40stop-spammer-registrations-plugin&new=3080581%40stop-spammer-registrations-plugin&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=

References

• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/1998cadb-2eb3-4819-aa7c-59e4f777c7f8?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3080581%40stop-spammer-registrations-plugin&new=3080581%40stop-spammer-registrations-plugin&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=

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