# CVE-2023-5979: eCommerce Product Catalog Plugin for WordPress < 3.3.26 - Products Deletion via CSRF

> Attackers can trick logged-in administrators into deleting all products via CSRF, requiring an upgrade to the eCommerce Product Catalog Plugin.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/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:** 4 Dec 2023
- **Updated:** 2 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-m857-f66m-vmhf

## What is CVE-2023-5979?

CVE-2023-5979 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Unknown eCommerce Product Catalog Plugin for WordPress, published on 4 Dec 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 eCommerce Product Catalog Plugin for WordPress plugin before 3.3.26 does not have CSRF checks in some of its admin pages, which could allow attackers to make logged-in users perform unwanted actions via CSRF attacks, such as delete all products

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

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-5979?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Implecode Ecommerce Product Catalog.

## How do I fix CVE-2023-5979?

No fix has been published for CVE-2023-5979 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2023-5979 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-5979 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Unknown eCommerce Product Catalog Plugin for WordPress

- [CVE-2023-47839](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-47839/): WordPress eCommerce Product Catalog Plugin <= 3.3.26 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS) (medium 6.5)
- [CVE-2021-24875](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-24875/): eCommerce Product Catalog for WordPress < 3.0.39 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (medium 6.1)
- [CVE-2023-25049](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-25049/): WordPress eCommerce Product Catalog Plugin <= 3.3.4 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS) (medium 5.9)
- [CVE-2023-51688](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-51688/): WordPress eCommerce Product Catalog Plugin <= 3.3.26 is vulnerable to Sensitive Data Exposure (medium 5.3)
- [CVE-2023-1470](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-1470/): eCommerce Product Catalog plugin for WordPress <= 3.3.8 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting (medium 4.4)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2023-5979 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2023-5979 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Unknown eCommerce Product Catalog Plugin for WordPress, published on 4 Dec 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-2023-5979 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Unknown eCommerce Product Catalog Plugin for WordPress. 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-2023-5979/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-5979/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-5979
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5979
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-5979

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-5979/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.