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CVE-2023-4690 Cross site request forgery (csrf)

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CVE Information

Original CVE data

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The Elementor Addon Elements plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 1.12.7. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the eae_save_config function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to change configuration settings for the plugin via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

CWE: CWE-352
CVSS v2-
CVSS v34.3
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
References
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/fd53b4e1-c6b7-4111-911a-04b14c7a9c4e?source=cve
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/addon-elements-for-elementor-page-builder/trunk/inc/admin/admin-ui.php
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=2996185%40addon-elements-for-elementor-page-builder%2Ftrunk&old=2980987%40addon-elements-for-elementor-page-builder%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
Affected Vendors

Webtechstreet - (1)

Basic Analysis

Common vulnerability metrics

Vulnerabilty type as detected by PRIOnengine

Cross site request forgery (csrf)

CVSS Scores as calculated by PRIOnengine
CVSS v24.3
AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
CVSS v34.3
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
MITRE CWE Top 25

Vulnerability weakness type is in the top 25 CWEs according to MITRE. View Mitre Top 25 CWEs

Exploits

No exploit code is reported to exist.

Active Exploitation

Vulnerability is not in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. See the KEV Catalog

Social Network Activity

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Threat Actor Activity

No sightings of the vulnerability within threat reports.

Cybersecurity Frameworks

How the vulnerability maps against various cybersecurity frameworks

T1566.002 - Phishing (Spearphishing Link)
T1566 - Phishing
T1565 - Data Manipulation
T1204.001 - User Execution (Malicious Link)
T1119 - Automated Collection

Compliance Impact

How the submited vulnerability affects compliance

PCI DSS v3.2.1-6.5.9 - Cross Site Request Forgery

Web Application Security Frameworks

Applicable if the issue likely affects a web application

WASC-9 - Cross Site Request Forgery