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Wbcom Designs – BuddyPress Group Reviews <= 2.8.3 — Unauthorized AJAX Actions due to Nonce Bypass

CVE-2022-2108Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤2.8.3Update to 2.8.4 or newer

All remediation steps
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Severity
Medium6.5
CVSS
6.5
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:N Privileges required
None
UI:N User interaction
None
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:L Confidentiality
Low
I:L Integrity
Low
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-862 Missing Authorization
Required access
No account needed
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
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Am I affected?

Wbcom Designs – BuddyPress Group Reviews review-buddypress-groups

  1. Affected≤ 2.8.3
  2. Patched in2.8.4

Update to 2.8.4 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 2.8.3. Version 2.8.4 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Wbcom Designs – BuddyPress Group Reviews.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
  • No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.

What to do

  1. Update to version 2.8.4, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch Wbcom Designs – BuddyPress Group Reviews to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Marco Wotschka.

The plugin Wbcom Designs – BuddyPress Group Reviews for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized settings changes and review modification due to missing capability checks and improper nonce checks in several functions related to said actions in versions up to, and including, 2.8.3. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to modify reviews and plugin settings on the affected site.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

More in Wbcom Designs – BuddyPress Group Reviews

All 3
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SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
Medium6.1Cross-Site Scripting
≤2.8.1Update to 2.8.2
—
Medium6.3Arbitrary Plugin Installation, Activation and Deactivation
<3.3.0Update to 3.3.0
—

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Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity medium, CVSS 6.5

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
[object Object]. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
VulnCrest content
Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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