CVE-2023-7065
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-352
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
Publication date:
04/05/2024
Last modified:
08/04/2026
Description
The Stop Spammers Security | Block Spam Users, Comments, Forms plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 2024.4. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the sfs_process AJAX action. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to add arbitrary IPs to the plugin's allowlist and blocklist via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
Impact
Base Score 3.x
5.40
Severity 3.x
MEDIUM
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3080581%40stop-spammer-registrations-plugin&new=3080581%40stop-spammer-registrations-plugin
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/1998cadb-2eb3-4819-aa7c-59e4f777c7f8?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3080581%40stop-spammer-registrations-plugin&new=3080581%40stop-spammer-registrations-plugin
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/1998cadb-2eb3-4819-aa7c-59e4f777c7f8?source=cve



