Two Factor Authentication <= 1.3.12 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE CVE-2018-20231
CVSS High (8.8)
Publicly Published December 18, 2018
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Martijn Korse
Description

Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) in the two-factor-authentication plugin before 1.3.13 for WordPress allows remote attackers to disable 2FA via the tfa_enable_tfa parameter due to missing nonce validation.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug two-factor-authentication (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.3.13
Patched Version
  • 1.3.13
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