# CVE-2023-6326: Master Slider - Responsive Touch Slider <= 3.9.10 - Cross-Site Request Forgery via process_bulk_action

> Unauthenticated attackers can trick administrators into deleting or duplicating sliders via forged requests due to missing nonce validation.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.4 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L`)
- **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:** 2 Mar 2024
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-pw43-2cfm-ff7r

## What is CVE-2023-6326?

CVE-2023-6326 is a medium-severity vulnerability in averta Master Slider – Responsive Touch Slider, published on 2 Mar 2024. 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 Master Slider – Responsive Touch Slider plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 3.9.10. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the 'process_bulk_action' function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to duplicate or delete arbitrary sliders via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link. CVE-2023-50900 and 	CVE-2024-6490 may be a duplicate of this issue.

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

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-6326?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Averta Master Slider.

## How do I fix CVE-2023-6326?

No fix has been published for CVE-2023-6326 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2023-6326 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-6326 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in averta Master Slider – Responsive Touch Slider

- [CVE-2024-32600](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-32600/): WordPress Master Slider plugin <= 3.9.5 - PHP Object Injection vulnerability (high 8.3)
- [CVE-2024-37222](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-37222/): WordPress Master Slider plugin <= 3.10.0 - Reflected Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability (high 7.1)
- [CVE-2023-47508](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-47508/): WordPress Master Slider Pro Plugin <= 3.6.5 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS) (high 7.1)
- [CVE-2025-58025](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-58025/): WordPress Master Slider Plugin <= 3.11.0 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability (medium 6.5)
- [CVE-2024-6490](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-6490/): Master Slider – Responsive Touch Slider <= 3.9.10 - CSRF to slider deletion (medium 6.5)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2023-6326 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2023-6326 is a medium-severity vulnerability in averta Master Slider – Responsive Touch Slider, published on 2 Mar 2024. 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-2023-6326 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: averta Master Slider – Responsive Touch Slider. 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-2023-6326/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-6326/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-6326
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-6326
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-6326

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-6326/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.