CVE-2023-2079
Buy Me a Coffee – Button and Widget Plugin <= 3.7 - Cross-Site Request Forgery
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Description
The "Buy Me a Coffee – Button and Widget Plugin" plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery due to missing nonce validation on the recieve_post, bmc_disconnect, name_post, and widget_post functions in versions up to, and including, 3.7. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update the plugins settings, via a forged request granted the attacker can trick a site's administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
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Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
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