WP 2FA – Two-factor authentication for WordPress <= 2.5.0 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

4.3
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE CVE-2023-6520
CVSS 4.3 (Medium)
Publicly Published January 2, 2024
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Ulyses Saicha

Description

The WP 2FA – Two-factor authentication for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 2.5.0. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the send_backup_codes_email function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to send emails with arbitrary content to registered users via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator or other registered user into performing an action such as clicking on a link. While a nonce check is present, it is only executed if a nonce is set. By omitting a nonce from the request, the check can be bypassed.

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Vulnerability Details for WP 2FA – Two-factor authentication for WordPress

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wp-2fa (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 2.6.0, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 2.5.0
Patched Version
  • 2.6.0

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