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CVE-2023-6980: WP SMS <= 6.5 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Subscriber Deletion

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-01-03 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-352

Description

The WP SMS – Messaging & SMS Notification for WordPress, WooCommerce, GravityForms, etc plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 6.5. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the 'delete' action of the wp-sms-subscribers page. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete subscribers via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Affected products

• VeronaLabs WP SMS: before 6.5.1 — fixed in 6.5.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: VeronaLabs WP SMS 6.5.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/wp-sms/wp-sms/commit/0f36e2f521ade8ddfb3e04786defe074370afb50
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3015006%40wp-sms&new=3015006%40wp-sms&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/94ad6b51-ff8d-48d5-9a70-1781d13990a5?source=cve
• https://github.com/wp-sms/wp-sms/commit/0f36e2f521ade8ddfb3e04786defe074370afb50
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3015006%40wp-sms&new=3015006%40wp-sms&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/94ad6b51-ff8d-48d5-9a70-1781d13990a5?source=cve

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