| Title | WordPress Meta SEO <= 4.5.2 - Open Redirect |
|---|---|
| Author | Khalid6468 |
| Severity | Medium |
| Impact | Authenticated attackers with low privileges can exploit unauthorized AJAX actions to update link redirects and create arbitrary redirect vulnerabilities that could be used for phishing attacks. |
| Remediation | Update the plugin to version 4.5.3 or later to fix the arbitrary redirect vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 6.1 |
| EPSS Score | 0.09476 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2023-0876 |
| CWE ID | CWE-601 |
| Fofa Query | body="/wp-content/plugins/wp-meta-seo/" |
| Tags | wpscan cve cve2023 wp wp-plugin wordpress wp-meta-seo redirect vkev vuln |
The WP Meta SEO WordPress plugin before 4.5.3 did not authorize several AJAX actions, which allowed low-privilege users to update certain data and resulted in an arbitrary redirect vulnerability.
GET /wp-content/plugins/wp-meta-seo/readme.txt HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/100.0.4896.127 Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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