CVE-2023-4940: BEAR <= 1.1.3.3 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Product Manipulation

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 woobe_bulkoperations_swap function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to manipulate products 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/ext/bulkoperations/bulkoperations.php#L521
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2970262/woo-bulk-editor/trunk/ext/bulkoperations/bulkoperations.php?contextall=1&old=2844667&old_path=%2Fwoo-bulk-editor%2Ftrunk%2Fext%2Fbulkoperations%2Fbulkoperations.php
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/31c5e524-ef4d-48c7-baa0-595f8060a167?source=cve
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/woo-bulk-editor/trunk/ext/bulkoperations/bulkoperations.php#L521
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2970262/woo-bulk-editor/trunk/ext/bulkoperations/bulkoperations.php?contextall=1&old=2844667&old_path=%2Fwoo-bulk-editor%2Ftrunk%2Fext%2Fbulkoperations%2Fbulkoperations.php
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/31c5e524-ef4d-48c7-baa0-595f8060a167?source=cve

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