CVE-2023-2497 (GCVE-0-2023-2497)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-11-22 15:33 – Updated: 2026-04-08 17:34
VLAI
Title
UserPro <= 5.1.0 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to PHP Object Injection
Summary
The UserPro plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 5.1.0. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the 'import_settings' function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to exploit PHP Object Injection due to the use of unserialize() on the user supplied parameter via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-352 - Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
Assigner
Wordfence CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 65/100 over 2379 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
n/a UserPro - Community and User Profile WordPress Plugin Affected: 0 , ≤ 5.1.0 (semver)
Credits
István Márton
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