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CVE-2023-5756: Digital Publications by Supsystic <= 1.7.6 - Cross-Site Request Forgery via AJAX action

• 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: 2023-12-09 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-352

Description

The Digital Publications by Supsystic plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 1.7.6. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the AJAX action handler. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute AJAX actions via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Affected products

• Supsystic Digital Publications by Supsystic: through 1.7.6

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/digital-publications-by-supsystic/trunk/classes/frame.php#L144
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3010075
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2304e4dc-0dc6-4ded-b8e6-8d76d70f63d7?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/digital-publications-by-supsystic/trunk/classes/frame.php#L144
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2304e4dc-0dc6-4ded-b8e6-8d76d70f63d7?source=cve

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