CVE-2023-5884

Word Balloon < 4.20.3 - Avatar Removal via CSRF

Severity Score

6.5

*CVSS v3.1

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

The Word Balloon WordPress plugin before 4.20.3 does not protect some of its actions against CSRF attacks, allowing an unauthenticated attacker to trick a logged in user to delete arbitrary avatars by clicking a link.

El complemento Word Balloon de WordPress anterior a 4.20.3 no protege algunas de sus acciones contra ataques CSRF, lo que permite a un atacante no autenticado engañar a un usuario que ha iniciado sesión para que elimine avatares arbitrarios haciendo clic en un enlace.

The Word Balloon plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 4.20.2. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the 'delete' action. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete arbitrary avatars via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

*Credits: Krzysztof Zając, WPScan

CVSS Scores

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

Required

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

High

Availability

None

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

Required

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

Low

Availability

None

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

Complete

Availability

None

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2023-10-31 CVE Reserved
2023-11-13 CVE Published
2024-08-02 CVE Updated
2024-08-02 First Exploit
2025-01-05 EPSS Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date

CWE

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

CAPEC

References (1)

URL	Tag	Source

URL	Date	SRC
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/f4a7937c-6f4b-49dd-b88a-67ebe718ad19	2024-08-02

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Back2nature Search vendor "Back2nature"		Word Balloon Search vendor "Back2nature" for product "Word Balloon"				< 4.20.3 Search vendor "Back2nature" for product "Word Balloon" and version " < 4.20.3"		wordpress		Affected