CVE-2023-6520

WP 2FA – Two-factor authentication for WordPress <= 2.5.0 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

State
Published
Severity
4.3 Medium
Published
Jan 11, 2024
Updated
Apr 8, 2026
Reserved
Dec 5, 2023

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Description

The WP 2FA – Two-factor authentication for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 2.5.0. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the send_backup_codes_email function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to send emails with arbitrary content to registered users via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator or other registered user into performing an action such as clicking on a link. While a nonce check is present, it is only executed if a nonce is set. By omitting a nonce from the request, the check can be bypassed.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.14.3 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:NWordfence

Weaknesses

  • CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Affected Products

ProductVersions
WP 2FA – Two-factor authentication for WordPressmelapress
  • 2.5.0 and earlierAffected

References

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