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CVE-2023-6883 Easy Social Feed <= 6.5.2 - Missing Authorization to Settings Modification

Medium 4.3 Published Updated

Authenticated subscribers can modify plugin settings and access tokens due to missing capability checks in AJAX functions.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Any signed-in user
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2023-6883?

CVE-2023-6883 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in sjaved Easy Social Feed – Social Photos Gallery and Post Feed for WordPress, published on 11 Jan 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The Easy Social Feed plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on multiple AJAX functions in all versions up to, and including, 6.5.2. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to perform unauthorized actions, such as modifying the plugin's Facebook and Instagram access tokens and updating group IDs.

Weakness: CWE-732, CWE-862

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-6883?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Easysocialfeed Easy Social Feed.

How do I fix CVE-2023-6883?

No fix has been published for CVE-2023-6883 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.

Is CVE-2023-6883 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-6883 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-m25v-grp2-qq63.

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