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WordPress Books Gallery <= 4.4.8 — Cross-Site Request Forgery leading to Plugin Settings Changes

CVE-2023-23705Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤4.4.8Update to 4.4.9 or newer

All remediation steps
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Severity
Medium4.3
CVSS
4.3
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/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:R User interaction
Required
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:N Confidentiality
None
I:L Integrity
Low
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-352 CSRF
Required access
No account needed
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
On this page8

Am I affected?

Books Gallery – Book Showcase, Library & Affiliate Plugin wp-books-gallery

  1. Affected≤ 4.4.8
  2. Patched in4.4.9

Update to 4.4.9 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 4.4.8. Version 4.4.9 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Books Gallery – Book Showcase, Library & Affiliate Plugin.
  • 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 4.4.9, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch Books Gallery – Book Showcase, Library & Affiliate Plugin to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to yuyudhn.

The WordPress Books Gallery plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 4.4.8. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the 'wbg-api-import.php' file and the functions 'wbg_gallery_settings', 'wbg_search_panel_settings', and 'wbg_details_settings'. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to change plugin settings via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

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

Advisories & patches

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All 7
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SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
Medium6.4Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤4.8.4Update to 4.8.5
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High7.5Unauthenticated SQL Injection
≤4.8.3Update to 4.8.4
CVE-2026-96822
Medium6.1Reflected DOM-Based Cross-Site Scripting via url Parameter
≤5.5.8Update to 5.5.9
CVE-2024-13362
Medium5.3Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Settings Update via 'permalink_structure' Parameter
≤4.8.0Update to 4.8.1
CVE-2026-5347
Medium6.1Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via fs_request_get
≤1.9.2No patch available
CVE-2023-33999

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Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity medium, CVSS 4.3

  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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