CVE-2023-6520

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    CVE-2023-6520

    Published: 11 Jan 2024Last Modified: 12 Mar 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: , https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-2fa/trunk/includes/classes/Admin/class-setup-wizard.php?rev=2940688#L606, https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3009922%40wp-2fa&new=3009922%40wp-2fa&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/0af451be-2477-453c-a230-7f3fb804398b?source=cve

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: N/A

    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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