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CVE-2023-4276: Absolute Privacy <= 2.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to User Email/Password Change

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2023-08-10 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-352

Description

The Absolute Privacy plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 2.1. This is due to missing nonce validation on the 'abpr_profileShortcode' function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to change user email and password via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Affected products

• johnkolbert Absolute Privacy: through 2.1

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/absolute-privacy/trunk/profile_page.php
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f3855e84-b97e-4729-8a48-55f2a2444e2c?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/absolute-privacy/trunk/profile_page.php
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f3855e84-b97e-4729-8a48-55f2a2444e2c?source=cve

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