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Button Generator – easily Button Builder <= 2.3.8 — Cross-Site Request Forgery

CVE-2023-49155Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤2.3.8Update to 2.3.9 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
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Am I affected?

Button Generator – Easily Create Custom Buttons with Icons and Analytics button-generation

  1. Affected≤ 2.3.8
  2. Patched in2.3.9

Update to 2.3.9 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 2.3.8. Version 2.3.9 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Button Generator – Easily Create Custom Buttons with Icons and Analytics.
  • 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 2.3.9, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch Button Generator – Easily Create Custom Buttons with Icons and Analytics to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Elliot.

The Button Generator – easily Button Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 2.3.8. This is due to missing nonce validation on the btg_count() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to reset the button counter 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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≤3.1.1Update to 3.1.2
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Medium4.3Cross-Site Request Forgery
≤2.3.9Update to 3.0
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Medium5.3Missing Authorization
≤2.3.8Update to 2.3.9
CVE-2023-49154
Medium5.3Cross-Site Request Forgery in tools-data-base.php
≤2.3.5Update to 2.3.6
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≤3.0.3Update to 3.0.4
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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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