CVE-2023-4277: Realia <= 1.4.0 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to User Email Change

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 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 Realia plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 1.4.0. This is due to missing nonce validation on the 'process_change_profile_form' function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to change user email via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Affected products

pragmaticmates Realia: through 1.4.0

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/realia/tags/1.4.0/includes/post-types/class-realia-post-type-user.php#L112
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/06f33e18-0bdd-4c56-a8df-fc1969b9ecf8?source=cve
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/realia/tags/1.4.0/includes/post-types/class-realia-post-type-user.php#L112
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/06f33e18-0bdd-4c56-a8df-fc1969b9ecf8?source=cve

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