Multiple Themes (Various Versions) - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Arbitrary Plugin Activation

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE CVE-2023-33923
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published May 30, 2023
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Dave Jong
Description

Several themes for WordPress are vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery due to missing nonce validation on the activate_plugin() function called via an AJAX action in various versions of the themes. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to activate arbitrary plugins via a forged request, if they can trick an authenticated user into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

References

3 affected software package

Software Type Theme
Software Slug viral-news (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.4.5
Patched Version
  • 1.4.6
Software Type Theme
Software Slug hashone (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.3.0
Patched Version
  • 1.3.1
Software Type Theme
Software Slug viral (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.8.0
Patched Version
  • 1.8.1
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