# CVE-2023-5945: Cross-site request forgery in video carousel slider with lightbox

> Unauthenticated attackers can delete videos from the slider by tricking administrators into clicking a link due to missing nonce validation.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 3 Nov 2023
- **Updated:** 5 Feb 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-cj9v-p8wr-46mp

## What is CVE-2023-5945?

CVE-2023-5945 is a medium-severity vulnerability in nik00726 video carousel slider with lightbox, published on 3 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 video carousel slider with lightbox plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in version 1.0. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the responsive_video_gallery_with_lightbox_video_management_func() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete videos hosted from the video slider via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Weakness: CWE-352 (Cross-Site Request Forgery)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-5945?

It affects 1 product.


Products: I13websolution Video Carousel Slider With Lightbox.

## How do I fix CVE-2023-5945?

No fix has been published for CVE-2023-5945 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2023-5945 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-5945 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in nik00726 video carousel slider with lightbox

- [CVE-2023-32797](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-32797/): WordPress video carousel slider with lightbox Plugin <= 1.0.22 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS) (high 7.1)
- [CVE-2023-2710](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-2710/): video carousel slider with lightbox <= 1.0.22 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (medium 6.1)
- [CVE-2019-25212](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-25212/): video carousel slider with lightbox <= 1.0.6 - Authenticated (Admin+) SQL Injection (medium 4.9)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2023-5945 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2023-5945 is a medium-severity vulnerability in nik00726 video carousel slider with lightbox, published on 3 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.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-5945 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: nik00726 video carousel slider with lightbox. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-5945/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-5945/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-5945
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5945
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-5945

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-5945/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.