CVE-2023-6520 (GCVE-0-2023-6520)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-01-11 06:49 – Updated: 2025-06-09 18:40
VLAI?
Summary
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.
Severity ?
4.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE
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References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
melapress WP 2FA – Two-factor authentication for WordPress Affected: * , ≤ 2.5.0 (semver)
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Credits
Ulyses Saicha
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