CVE-2023-0502

MEDIUM 6.5CVE-2023-0502 · Published 27/03/2023 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2023-0502 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.5) vulnerability affecting wp news (hasthemes).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.33%, higher than 25.7% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
wp news hasthemes	`≤ 1.1.9`	No fix yet

Description

The WP News WordPress plugin through 1.1.9 does not have CSRF check when activating plugins, which could allow attackers to make logged in admins activate arbitrary plugins present on the blog via a CSRF attack

References

wpscan.com/vulnerability/c959f4ce-b6ea-4aee-9a98-aa98d2a62138 · Exploit

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