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.

Total Unpatched & Patched Vulnerabilities Last Week

Total Vulnerabilities by CVSS Severity Last Week

Total Vulnerabilities by CWE Type Last Week

Researchers That Contributed to WordPress Security Last Week

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Vulnerability Details

LeadSnap <= 1.23 – Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection via AJAX

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

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

GiveWP <= 2.25.1 – Unauthenticated CSV Injection

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Formidable Forms <= 6.0.1 – IP Spoofing via HTTP header

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Clone <= 2.3.7 – Missing Authorization via wp_ajax_tifm_save_decision

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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