Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (Mar 6, 2023 to Mar 12, 2023)

Last week, there were 60 vulnerabilities disclosed in 40 WordPress Plugins and 1 WordPress theme that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were 16 Vulnerability Researchers that contributed to WordPress Security last week. Review those vulnerabilities in this report now to ensure your site is not affected.

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New Firewall Rules Deployed Last Week

The Wordfence Threat Intelligence Team reviews each vulnerability to determine impact and severity, along with assessing the likelihood of exploitation, to verify that the Wordfence Firewall provides sufficient protection.

The team rolled out enhanced protection via firewall rules for the following vulnerabilities in real-time to our Premium, Care, and Response customers last week:

• Paytium <= 4.3.7 – Missing Authorization
• Yoast SEO <= 20.2 – Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
• Slimstat Analytics <= 4.9.3.2 – Authenticated (Subscriber+) SQL Injection via Shortcode
• Paid Memberships Pro <= 2.9.11 – Authenticated (Subscriber+) SQL Injection via Shortcodes

Wordfence Premium, Care, and Response customers received this protection immediately, while users still running the free version of Wordfence will receive this enhanced protection after a 30 day delay.

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Total Unpatched & Patched Vulnerabilities Last Week

Patch Status	Number of Vulnerabilities
Unpatched	3
Patched	57

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Total Vulnerabilities by CVSS Severity Last Week

Severity Rating	Number of Vulnerabilities
Low Severity	0
Medium Severity	53
High Severity	6
Critical Severity	1

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Total Vulnerabilities by CWE Type Last Week

Vulnerability Type by CWE	Number of Vulnerabilities
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)	24
Missing Authorization	17
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (‘Cross-site Scripting’)	9
Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory (‘Path Traversal’)	2
Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command (‘SQL Injection’)	1
Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)	1
Incorrect Privilege Assignment	1
Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component (‘Injection’)	1
Reliance on Untrusted Inputs in a Security Decision	1
Improper Authorization	1
Deserialization of Untrusted Data	1
Information Exposure	1

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Researchers That Contributed to WordPress Security Last Week

Researcher Name	Number of Vulnerabilities
Marco Wotschka (Wordfence Vulnerability Researcher)	15
Mika	5
Erwan LR	3
Rafshanzani Suhada	3
Rafie Muhammad	2
yuyudhn	2
Nguyen Xuan Chien	1
Nicholas Ferreira	1
Lana Codes	1
FearZzZz	1
Rio Darmawan	1
Omar Badran	1
thiennv	1
Daniel Ruf	1
Alex Sanford	1
Abdi Pranata	1

 

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Vulnerability Details

LeadSnap <= 1.23 – Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection via AJAX

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Multiple E-plugins (Various Versions) – Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation

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WP Dark Mode <= 4.0.7 – Authenticated (Subscriber+) Local File Inclusion via ‘style’

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GiveWP <= 2.25.1 – Unauthenticated CSV Injection

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WP Statistics <= 13.2.16 – Authenticated (Admin+) SQL Injection

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Paytium: Mollie payment forms & donations <= 4.3.7 – Missing Authorization in ‘create_mollie_account’

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Paytium: Mollie payment forms & donations <= 4.3.7 – Missing Authorization in ‘create_mollie_profile’

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Complianz – GDPR/CCPA Cookie Consent <= 6.4.1 – Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

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Weaver Xtreme Theme Support <= 5.0.2 – Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode

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Cookie Notice & Compliance for GDPR / CCPA <= 2.4.6 – Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via ‘cookies_revoke_shortcode’ Shortcode

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Daily Prayer Time <= 2023.03.08 – Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

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GiveWP <= 2.25.1 – Authenticated (Author+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

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GiveWP <= 2.25.1 – Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via give_form_grid shortcode

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W4 Post List <= 2.4.2 – Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via ‘w4pl[no_items_text]’

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GiveWP <= 2.25.1 – Cross-Site Request Forgery to Cross-Site Scripting via render_dropdown

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Webmention <= 4.0.8 – Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via ‘replytocom’

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Real Estate 7 Theme <= 3.3.4 – Unauthenticated Arbitrary Email Sending

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Popup box <= 3.4.4 – Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via ‘ays_pb_tab’ Parameter

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Paytium: Mollie payment forms & donations <= 4.3.7 – Missing Authorization in ‘pt_cancel_subscription’

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Paytium: Mollie payment forms & donations <= 4.3.7 – Missing Authorization in ‘update_profile_preference’

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HT Easy GA4 ( Google Analytics 4 ) <= 1.0.6 – Cross-Site Request Forgery via plugin_activation

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Updraft Plus <= 1.22.24 – Cross-Site Request Forgery via updraft_ajaxrestore

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Daily Prayer Time <= 2023.03.08 – Cross-Site Request Forgery

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Paytium: Mollie payment forms & donations <= 4.3.7 – Missing Authorization in ‘paytium_sw_save_api_keys’

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GiveWP <= 2.25.1 – Cross-Site Request Forgery via process_bulk_action

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GiveWP <= 2.25.1 – Authenticated (Contributor+) Arbitrary Content Deletion

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Mass Delete Unused Tags <= 2.0.0 – Cross-Site Request Forgery via plugin_mass_delete_unused_tags_init

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Mass Delete Taxonomies <= 3.0.0 – Cross-Site Request Forgery via mp_plugin_mass_delete_tags_init

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Auto Prune Posts <= 1.8.0 – Cross-Site Request Forgery via admin_menu

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Drag and Drop Multiple File Upload PRO <= 2.10.9 – Directory Traversal

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Formidable Forms <= 6.0.1 – IP Spoofing via HTTP header

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CMP – Coming Soon & Maintenance Plugin by NiteoThemes <= 4.1.6 – Information Exposure

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RapidLoad Power-Up for Autoptimize <= 1.7.1 – Cross-Site Request Forgery via ‘attach_rule’

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RapidLoad Power-Up for Autoptimize <= 1.7.1 – Missing Authorization in ‘uucss_update_rule’

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RapidLoad Power-Up for Autoptimize <= 1.7.1 – Missing Authorization in ‘attach_rule’

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301 Redirects – Easy Redirect Manager <= 2.72 – Cross-Site Request Forgery via dismiss_notice

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RapidLoad Power-Up for Autoptimize <= 1.7.1 – Cross-Site Request Forgery via ‘uucss_update_rule’

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RapidLoad Power-Up for Autoptimize <= 1.7.1 – Missing Authorization in ‘clear_page_cache’

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Clone <= 2.3.7 – Cross-Site Request Forgery via wp_ajax_tifm_save_decision

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RapidLoad Power-Up for Autoptimize <= 1.7.1 – Cross-Site Request Forgery via ‘clear_uucss_logs’

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Popup Maker <= 1.18.0 – Cross-Site Request Forgery via init

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Affiliate Super Assistent <= 1.5.1 – Cross-Site Request Forgery to Settings Update and Cache Clearing

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cformsII <= 15.0.4 – Cross-Site Request Forgery leading to Settings Updates

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Side Menu Lite <= 4.0 – Cross-Site Request Forgery to Item Deletion

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Clone <= 2.3.7 – Missing Authorization via wp_ajax_tifm_save_decision

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RapidLoad Power-Up for Autoptimize <= 1.7.1 – Cross-Site Request Forgery via ‘ucss_connect’

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RapidLoad Power-Up for Autoptimize <= 1.7.1 – Missing Authorization in ‘clear_uucss_logs’

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External Links <= 2.57 – Cross-Site Request Forgery via action_admin_action_wpel_dismiss_notice

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Paytium: Mollie payment forms & donations <= 4.3.7 – Missing Authorization in ‘check_for_verified_profiles’

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RapidLoad Power-Up for Autoptimize <= 1.7.1 – Cross-Site Request Forgery via ‘clear_page_cache’

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RapidLoad Power-Up for Autoptimize <= 1.7.1 – Missing Authorization in ‘ajax_deactivate’

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GiveWP <= 2.25.1 – Cross-Site Request Forgery via give_cache_flush

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GiveWP <= 2.25.1 – Cross-Site Request Forgery via save

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RapidLoad Power-Up for Autoptimize <= 1.7.1 – Cross-Site Request Forgery via ‘queue_posts’

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RapidLoad Power-Up for Autoptimize <= 1.7.1 – Cross-Site Request Forgery via ‘ajax_deactivate’

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Paytium: Mollie payment forms & donations <= 4.3.7 – Missing Authorization in ‘paytium_notice_dismiss’

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RapidLoad Power-Up for Autoptimize <= 1.7.1 – Missing Authorization in ‘ucss_connect’

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Paytium: Mollie payment forms & donations <= 4.3.7 – Missing Authorization in ‘check_mollie_account_details’

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RapidLoad Power-Up for Autoptimize <= 1.7.1 – Missing Authorization in ‘queue_posts’

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GiveWP <= 2.25.1 – Authenticated (Admin+) Server-Side Request Forgery via give_get_content_by_ajax_handler

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