Seraphinite Accelerator Plugin up to 2.20.31 on WordPress Setting cross-site request forgery

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A vulnerability marked as problematic has been reported in Seraphinite Accelerator Plugin up to 2.20.31 on WordPress. The impacted element is an unknown function of the component Setting Handler. This manipulation causes cross-site request forgery. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2023-5611. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in Seraphinite Accelerator Plugin up to 2.20.31 on WordPress (WordPress Plugin). Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code of the component Setting Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross-site request forgery vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is 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. As an impact it is known to affect integrity. The summary by CVE is:

The Seraphinite Accelerator WordPress plugin before 2.20.32 does not have authorisation and CSRF checks when resetting and importing its settings, allowing unauthenticated users to reset them

The weakness was disclosed 11/27/2023 by Erwan Lr. It is possible to read the advisory at wpscan.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2023-5611 since 10/17/2023. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

Upgrading to version 2.20.32 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• WordPress Plugin

Vendor

• Seraphinite

Name

• Accelerator Plugin

Version

• 2.20.0
• 2.20.1
• 2.20.2
• 2.20.3
• 2.20.4
• 2.20.5
• 2.20.6
• 2.20.7
• 2.20.8
• 2.20.9
• 2.20.10
• 2.20.11
• 2.20.12
• 2.20.13
• 2.20.14
• 2.20.15
• 2.20.16
• 2.20.17
• 2.20.18
• 2.20.19
• 2.20.20
• 2.20.21
• 2.20.22
• 2.20.23
• 2.20.24
• 2.20.25
• 2.20.26
• 2.20.27
• 2.20.28
• 2.20.29
• 2.20.30
• 2.20.31

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