CVE-2023-3178 (GCVE-0-2023-3178)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-01-16 15:55
Modified
2025-06-02 15:10
Severity ?
4.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE
Summary
The POST SMTP Mailer WordPress plugin before 2.5.7 does not have proper CSRF checks in some AJAX actions, which could allow attackers to make logged in users with the manage_postman_smtp capability delete arbitrary logs via a CSRF attack.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Unknown POST SMTP Mailer Version: 2.5.0   ≤
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