Twitter: Cross-site request forgery
Twitter is affected by cross-site request forgery. Exposure depends on how the affected operation is made reachable by the site. Exploitation relies on a signed-in privileged user submitting an attacker-controlled request.
- Component
- Plugin slug
twitter- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- May 31, 2023
This CVE was published May 31, 2023 and is one of 2 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Twitter to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
No confirmed safe version is listed. Consider a vendor-supported patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality while you assess the risk.
Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.
Technical description
A vulnerability was found in BestWebSoft Twitter Plugin up to 2.14 on WordPress. It has been classified as problematic. Affected is the function twttr_settings_page of the file twitter.php of the component Settings Page. The manipulation leads to cross-site request forgery. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. Upgrading to version 2.15 is able to address this issue. The patch is identified as a6d4659cbb2cbf18ccb0fb43549d5113d74e0146. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. VDB-230154 is the identifier assigned to this vulnerability.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
NVD vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H