Cross-site request forgery in Metform Elementor Contact Form Builder - CVE-2023-2517
Published: September 13, 2024
Vulnerability identifier: #VU97230
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2023-2517
CWE-ID: CWE-352
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site request forgery attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of the HTTP request origin. A remote attacker can trick the victim to visit a specially crafted web page and perform arbitrary actions on behalf of the victim on the vulnerable website.
Affected software
Metform Elementor Contact Form Builder
Cloud Pak for Data
Cloud Pak for Data
How to mitigate CVE-2023-2517
Install updates from vendor's website.
Metform Elementor Contact Form Builder - update to 3.3.3
Cloud Pak for Data - update to 4.8.5
Cloud Pak for Data - update to 4.8.5
External References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/metform/trunk/plugin.php#L544
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=2924362%40metform%2Ftrunk&old=2910040%40metform%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2907471/metform/trunk?contextall=1&old=2896914&old_path=%2Fmetform%2Ftrunk
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ca66afc3-a749-4ddc-8e2f-959f65cebd45?source=cve