CVE-2023-2249 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The wpForo Forum plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Local File Include, Server-Side Request Forgery, and PHAR Deserialization in versions up to, and including, 2.1.7. This is due to the insecure use of file_get_contents without appropriate verification of the data being supplied to the function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with minimal permissions such as a subscriber, to retrieve the contents of files like wp-config.php hosted on the system, perform a deserialization attack and possibly achieve remote code execution, and make requests to internal services.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.44721.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Vendors	Products
Gvectors	Wpforo Forum

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:gvectors:wpforo_forum:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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Advisories

No advisories yet.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wpforo/tags/2.1.7/classes/Actions.php#L444
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wpforo/tags/2.1.8/classes/Actions.php#L437
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/800fa098-b29f-4979-b7bd-b1186a4dafcb?source=cve

History

Mon, 23 Dec 2024 17:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published: 2023-06-09T05:33:21.777Z

Updated: 2024-12-23T16:19:33.213Z

Reserved: 2023-04-24T11:24:12.750Z

Link: CVE-2023-2249

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T06:19:14.042Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-06-09T06:16:05.470

Modified: 2024-11-21T07:58:14.220

Link: CVE-2023-2249

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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