Bricks <= 1.8.1 — Cross-Site Request Forgery via save_settings
CVE-2023-3408Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤1.8.1Update to 1.8.2 or newer
All remediation stepsOn this page3
Overview
- Advisory ID
- CVE-2023-3408
- Product
- Bricks bricks
- Affected
- ≤1.8.1
- Fixed in
- 1.8.2
- Weakness
- CWE-352 CSRF
- Required access
- No account needed
- Published
- · updated
- Credit
- Ram
- Source
- Wordfence Intelligence
- Affected≤ 1.8.1
- Patched in1.8.2
Update to 1.8.2 or newer.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:NWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:NPrivileges required- None
UI:RUser interaction- Required
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:NConfidentiality- None
I:LIntegrity- Low
A:NAvailability- None
The Bricks theme for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 1.8.1. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the 'save_settings' function.
This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to modify the theme's settings, including enabling a setting which allows lower-privileged users such as contributors to perform code execution, via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
Not sure which version you run? Run a passive check — it reads public files only.
Remediation & mitigations
- Update to version 1.8.2, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
References & provenance
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
Related CVEs
- 6.1CVE-2026-41554Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
- 4.3CVE-2026-40723Missing Authorization
- 7.5CVE-2025-6495Unauthenticated SQL Injection via `p` Parameter
- 7.1CVE-2024-2297Authenticated (Contributor+) Privilege Escalation via create_autosave
- 5.4CVE-2023-3410Authenticated (Bricks Page Builder Access+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Timeline
CVE published
Severity medium, CVSS 4.3
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
- CVE® identifiers
- Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. 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.