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CVE-2023-2556: WPCS – WordPress Currency Switcher Professional <= 1.1.9 - Missing Authorization to Arbitrary Custom Drop-Down Currency Switcher Deletion

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2023-06-09 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The WPCS – WordPress Currency Switcher Professional plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the anonymous function for the wpcs_sd_delete action in versions up to, and including, 1.1.9. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level permissions and above, to delete an arbitrary custom drop-down currency switcher.

Affected products

• PluginUS Wordpress Currency Switcher: before 1.2.0 — fixed in 1.2.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: PluginUS Wordpress Currency Switcher 1.2.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2911049/currency-switcher
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/bc44c95e-9ca0-46d0-8315-72612ef3f855?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2911049/currency-switcher
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/bc44c95e-9ca0-46d0-8315-72612ef3f855?source=cve

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