CVE-2023-2079
Buy Me a Coffee – Button and Widget Plugin <= 3.7 - Cross-Site Request Forgery
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 7.1 High
- Published
- Jul 11, 2023
- Updated
- Apr 8, 2026
- Reserved
- Apr 14, 2023
Description
The "Buy Me a Coffee – Button and Widget Plugin" plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery due to missing nonce validation on the recieve_post, bmc_disconnect, name_post, and widget_post functions in versions up to, and including, 3.7. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update the plugins settings, via a forged request granted the attacker can trick a site's administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 7.1 High | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L | Wordfence |
Weaknesses
- CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
Buy Me a Coffee – Button and Widget Pluginbuymeacoffee |
|
References
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6309258e-e4fc-4edf-a771-2d82a9a85a5c?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/buymeacoffee/trunk/includes/class-buy-me-a-coffee.php?rev=2319979#L162
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/buymeacoffee/trunk/admin/class-buy-me-a-coffee-admin.php?rev=2816542
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=2935565%40buymeacoffee&new=2935565%40buymeacoffee&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
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