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WordPress Plugin: groundhogg: CVE-2023-2717: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)
Published
May 19, 2023
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Apr 30, 2026

Description

The Groundhogg plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 2.7.9.8. This is due to missing nonce validation on the 'enable_safe_mode' function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to enable safe mode, which disables all other plugins, via a forged request if they can successfully trick an administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link. A warning message about safe mode is displayed to the admin, which can be easily disabled.

Solution

groundhogg-plugin-cve-2023-2717
Title
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