Admin note deletion via forged POST request
Published Jan 29, 2024 · Updated Aug 7, 2024
Cross-site request forgery in Site Notes 2.0.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to delete administration notes via a forged POST request. The ajax-calls.php endpoint processes attacker-supplied note identifiers and the DELETEALL!! command without validating a CSRF nonce. An administrator must open attacker-controlled HTML while logged in, after which the request deletes notes for the selected WordPress post.
Summary
What happened
Cross-site request forgery in Site Notes 2.0.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to delete administration notes via a forged POST request. The ajax-calls.php endpoint processes attacker-supplied note identifiers and the DELETEALL!! command without validating a CSRF nonce. An administrator must open attacker-controlled HTML while logged in, after which the request deletes notes for the selected WordPress post.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2023-6633
- Published
- Jan 29, 2024
- Updated
- Aug 7, 2024
- Vendor
- KC Computing
- Product
- Site Notes
- Classifications
- CWE-352, T1565.001
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Jan 29, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 7, 2024Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=0 <=2.0.0
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Public exploit references
- WPScan forged POST proof of conceptproof of concept · demonstrated
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