WP Education Plugin up to 1.2.6 on WordPress cross-site request forgery

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in WP Education Plugin up to 1.2.6 on WordPress and classified as problematic. The impacted element is an unknown function. The manipulation results in cross-site request forgery. This vulnerability was named CVE-2023-0498. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in WP Education Plugin up to 1.2.6 on WordPress (WordPress Plugin). It has been classified as problematic. Affected is an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross-site request forgery vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-352. The web application does not, or can not, sufficiently verify whether a well-formed, valid, consistent request was intentionally provided by the user who submitted the request. This is going to have an impact on integrity. CVE summarizes:

The WP Education WordPress plugin before 1.2.7 does not have CSRF check when activating plugins, which could allow attackers to make logged in admins activate arbitrary plugins present on the blog via a CSRF attack

The weakness was presented 03/27/2023. The advisory is shared for download at wpscan.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2023-0498 since 01/25/2023. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

Upgrading to version 1.2.7 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Cross-site request forgery
CWE: CWE-352 / CWE-862 / CWE-863
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Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: WP Education Plugin 1.2.7

Timelineinfo

01/25/2023 🔍
03/27/2023 +60 days 🔍
03/27/2023 +0 days 🔍
04/15/2023 +19 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: wpscan.com
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2023-0498 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2023-0498
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-224088

Entryinfo

Created: 03/27/2023 22:42
Updated: 04/15/2023 17:28
Changes: 03/27/2023 22:42 (40), 04/15/2023 17:28 (10)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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