Spectra – WordPress Gutenberg Blocks <= 2.3.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Plugin Activation

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE CVE-2023-23834
CVSS Medium (6.3)
Publicly Published January 25, 2023
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher István Márton
Description

The Spectra – WordPress Gutenberg Blocks plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 2.3.1 This is due to missing nonce validation on the activate_plugin function called via an AJAX action. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to activate arbitrary plugins, via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug ultimate-addons-for-gutenberg (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.3.1
Patched Version
  • 2.3.2
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