CVE-2023-4935: BEAR <= 1.1.3.3 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Profile Creation

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 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: 2023-10-20 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-352

Description

The BEAR for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 1.1.3.3. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the create_profile function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to create profiles via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Affected products

realmag777 BEAR – Bulk Editor and Products Manager Professional for WooCommerce by Pluginus.Net: through 1.1.3.3

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/woo-bulk-editor/trunk/classes/models/profiles.php#L191
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2970262/woo-bulk-editor/trunk/classes/models/profiles.php?contextall=1&old=2844667&old_path=%2Fwoo-bulk-editor%2Ftrunk%2Fclasses%2Fmodels%2Fprofiles.php
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/639f3941-7783-4500-aca4-5e8155db6460?source=cve
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/woo-bulk-editor/trunk/classes/models/profiles.php#L191
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2970262/woo-bulk-editor/trunk/classes/models/profiles.php?contextall=1&old=2844667&old_path=%2Fwoo-bulk-editor%2Ftrunk%2Fclasses%2Fmodels%2Fprofiles.php
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/639f3941-7783-4500-aca4-5e8155db6460?source=cve

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