CVE-2023-0403 - CVE House

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Status published Medium CVE-2023-0403

Social Warfare <= 4.3.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

5.4 CVSS

Vulnerability Description

The Social Warfare plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 4.3.1. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on several AJAX actions. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete post meta information and reset network access tokens, via forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

Marco Wotschka

References

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Affected Vendor

warfareplugins

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Affected Software

Social Sharing Plugin – Social Warfare

Vulnerable Versions:

0

Timeline

Official Publish: January 19th, 2023

Last Modified: April 8th, 2026

Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L

Weaknesses (CWE)

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1566.002 Spearphishing Link

T1204.001 Malicious Link

T1098 Account Manipulation

T1565.001 Stored Data Manipulation