Groundhogg <= 2.7.9.8 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Disable All Plugins

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE CVE-2023-2717
CVSS Medium (5.4)
Publicly Published May 19, 2023
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher István Márton
Description

The Groundhogg plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 2.7.9.8. This is due to missing nonce validation on the 'enable_safe_mode' function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to enable safe mode, which disables all other plugins, via a forged request if they can successfully trick an administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link. A warning message about safe mode is displayed to the admin, which can be easily disabled.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug groundhogg (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.7.9.8
Patched Version
  • 2.7.10
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