CVE-2023-5776

4.3 MEDIUM
Published: November 21, 2023 Modified: April 08, 2026
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Description

The Post Meta Data Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.1. This is due to missing nonce validation on the pmdm_wp_ajax_delete_meta, pmdm_wp_delete_user_meta, and pmdm_wp_delete_user_meta functions. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete arbitrary user, term, and post meta via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

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CVSS v3.x Details

0.0 Low Medium High Critical 10.0
Vector String
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory
https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/post-meta-data-manager/tags/1.2.1/readme.txt
Source: security@wordfence.com
Release Notes
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=2981559%40post-meta-data-manager&new=2981559%40post-meta-data-manager&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
Source: security@wordfence.com
Patch
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=2994271%40post-meta-data-manager&new=2994271%40post-meta-data-manager&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
Source: security@wordfence.com
Patch
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d49b8c44-4dad-4990-a8a8-116b424a7dfa?source=cve
Source: security@wordfence.com
Third Party Advisory
https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/post-meta-data-manager/tags/1.2.1/readme.txt
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Release Notes
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=2981559%40post-meta-data-manager&new=2981559%40post-meta-data-manager&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Patch
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=2994271%40post-meta-data-manager&new=2994271%40post-meta-data-manager&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Patch
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d49b8c44-4dad-4990-a8a8-116b424a7dfa?source=cve
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Third Party Advisory

8 reference(s) from NVD

Quick Stats

CVSS v3 Score
4.3 / 10.0
Exploitation Status
Not in CISA KEV

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-352 CWE-352

Affected Vendors

wpexpertplugins

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