Vulnerability · Published Feb 20, 2024 · Assigned by Wordfence
CVE-2024-0379Custom Twitter Feeds – A Tweets Widget or X Feed Widget <= 2.2.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Plugin Options Update
Medium 4.3
In plain English
A medium-severity cross-site request forgery in Custom Twitter Feeds – A Tweets Widget or X Feed Widget from smub. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.0% (higher than 63% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: public proof-of-concept code.
Official description
The Custom Twitter Feeds – A Tweets Widget or X Feed Widget plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 2.2.1. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the ctf_auto_save_tokens function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update the site's twitter API token and secret via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| smub | Custom Twitter Feeds – A Tweets Widget or X Feed Widget | 0 – through 2.2.1 |
Weakness: CWE-352 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
References
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/29e2ff11-053b-45cc-adf1-d276f1ee576e?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-twitter-feeds/trunk/custom-twitter-feed.php
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3032345%40custom-twitter-feeds%2Ftrunk&new=3032345%40custom-twitter-feeds%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=#file3