CVE-2018-20231

Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) in the two-factor-authentication plugin before 1.3.13 for WordPress allows remote attackers to disable 2FA via the tfa_enable_tfa parameter due to missing nonce validation.

CVSS v3 8.8 HIGH
CVSS v2.0 6.8 MEDIUM

8.8^/10

CVSS v3 : HIGH

Vector : AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploitability : 2.8 / Impact : 5.9

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

6.8^/10

CVSS v2.0 : MEDIUM

Vector : AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Exploitability : 8.6 / Impact : 6.4

Access Vector NETWORK

Access Complexity MEDIUM

Authentication NONE

Confidentiality Impact PARTIAL

Integrity Impact PARTIAL

Availability Impact PARTIAL

References

Link	Resource
https://wordpress.org/plugins/two-factor-authentication/#developers	Third Party Advisory
https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9187	Third Party Advisory
https://www.privacy-wise.com/two-factor-authentication-cross-site-request-forgery-csrf-vulnerability-cve-2018-20231/	Exploit Third Party Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:simbahosting:two-factor-authentication:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2018-12-19 11:29

Updated : 2023-12-10 12:44

NVD link : CVE-2018-20231

Mitre link : CVE-2018-20231

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2018-20231

JSON object : View

Products Affected

simbahosting

two-factor-authentication

CWE

CWE-352

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

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