WP Register Profile With Shortcode <= 3.5.9 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to User Password Reset

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE CVE-2023-5448
CVSS High (8.8)
Publicly Published January 10, 2024
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Dmitrii Ignatyev
Description

The WP Register Profile With Shortcode plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 3.5.9. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the update_password_validate function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to reset a user's password via a forged request granted they can trick the user into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wp-register-profile-with-shortcode (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 3.5.9
Patched Version
  • 3.6.0
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