Buy Me a Coffee – Button and Widget Plugin <= 3.7 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

7.1
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE CVE-2023-2079
CVSS 7.1 (High)
Publicly Published July 10, 2023
Last Updated July 13, 2023
Researcher István Márton - Wordfence

Description

The "Buy Me a Coffee – Button and Widget Plugin" plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery due to missing nonce validation on the recieve_post, bmc_disconnect, name_post, and widget_post functions in versions up to, and including, 3.7. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update the plugins settings, via a forged request granted the attacker can trick a site's administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

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Vulnerability Details for Buy Me a Coffee – Button and Widget Plugin

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug buymeacoffee (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 3.8, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 3.7
Patched Version
  • 3.8

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