CVE-2023-5776 Post Meta Data Manager <= 1.2.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Post, Term, and User Meta Deletion

What is CVE-2023-5776?

CVE-2023-5776 is a medium-severity vulnerability in gandhihitesh9 Post Meta Data Manager, published on 21 Nov 2023. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

The Post Meta Data Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.1. This is due to missing nonce validation on the pmdm_wp_ajax_delete_meta, pmdm_wp_delete_user_meta, and pmdm_wp_delete_user_meta functions. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete arbitrary user, term, and post meta via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Weakness: CWE-352

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-5776?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Wpexpertplugins Post Meta Data Manager.

How do I fix CVE-2023-5776?

No fix has been published for CVE-2023-5776 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2023-5776 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-5776 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in gandhihitesh9 Post Meta Data Manager

• CVE-2023-5425 Post Meta Data Manager <=1.2.0 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation High 8.8
• CVE-2023-5426 Post Meta Data Manager <=1.2.0 - Missing Authorization to User, Term, and Post Meta Deletion High 7.5
• CVE-2024-13835 Post Meta Data Manager <= 1.4.4 - Authentciated (Admin+) Multisite Privilege Escalation High 7.2
• CVE-2024-6264 Post Meta Data Manager <= 1.2.3 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting Medium 6.4

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-fm8h-fg2j-xr88.