wpForo Forum <= 2.2.8 - Cross-Site Request Forgery via logout()

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE CVE-2023-47870
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published November 20, 2023
Last Updated May 30, 2024
Researcher Jesse McNeil
Description

The wpForo Forum plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 2.2.8. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the logout() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to log out other users via a forged request granted they can trick a site's user into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wpforo (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.2.8
Patched Version
  • 2.2.9
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