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Bubble MenuWordPress extension · Wow Company

CVE-2023-23984

MEDIUM · 5.4 CVSS v3.1 Published 2023-03-01
Fix available
A fix is available. Upgrade to 3.0.2 or later.
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61/100
Remediation priority · Elevated
Remotely reachable No privileges

Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.

NVD · unedited
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Wow-Company Bubble Menu – circle floating menu plugin <= 3.0.1 leading to form deletion.

Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.

dbcve analysis · high confidence

A CSRF vulnerability in the Wow-Company Bubble Menu WordPress plugin (versions 3.0.1 and below) allows remote attackers to trick authenticated administrators into unknowingly submitting requests that delete forms, due to missing anti-CSRF token validation on the form deletion action.

MitigationImplement nonce token validation on all state-changing operations (including form deletion) and verify the nonce on the server side before executing the delete action. Additionally, configure SameSite attributes on session cookies.

Verify against the referenced sources before acting — the references below are authoritative for this CVE, this summary is not.

Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.

NVD · CPE data
Bubble MenuWordPress extension
Affected:< 3.0.2

CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.

From the vector
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Low
Availability
Low

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L

Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.

dbcve checks

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  1. Check if Wow Company Bubble Menu plugin is installed
    Navigate to WordPress admin dashboard under Plugins > Installed Plugins and look for 'Bubble Menu' by Wow Company, or inspect the wp-content/plugins/ directory for a bubble-menu folder
    Affected if The plugin is present in the WordPress installation
  2. Verify the installed version
    In Plugins > Installed Plugins, click on the plugin details link for Bubble Menu and check the version number, or read the version from the plugin's main PHP file or readme.txt in wp-content/plugins/bubble-menu/
    Affected if The version is 3.0.1 or below (any version < 3.0.2)
  3. Identify form deletion functionality
    Locate the plugin's admin interface or any form management section where forms can be deleted. Check the plugin's PHP files (particularly admin files) for any delete or remove action handlers related to forms
    Affected if The plugin has a form deletion feature that can be accessed via the WordPress admin dashboard
  4. Verify absence of nonce token validation on delete action
    Inspect the plugin's PHP code handling the form deletion action. Look for wp_verify_nonce, check_admin_referer, or nonce_field function calls in the delete handler. If these are missing, the plugin is vulnerable
    Affected if The form deletion action lacks nonce verification (no wp_verify_nonce, check_admin_referer, or similar CSRF protection in the delete handler)

The environment is affected if the Wow Company Bubble Menu plugin version 3.0.1 or below is installed and the form deletion action lacks proper nonce token validation.

Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.

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Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.

dbcve · scoped
Upgrade available Upgrade to 3.0.2 or later
Fixed in 3.0.2
Interim mitigation

Implement nonce token validation on all state-changing operations (including form deletion) and verify the nonce on the server side before executing the delete action. Additionally, configure SameSite attributes on session cookies.

Recommended fix High confidence

Bubble Menu plugin version 3.0.2

  1. 1. Backup your WordPress site before making any changes.
  2. 2. Navigate to the WordPress admin dashboard.
  3. 3. Go to Plugins > Installed Plugins.
  4. 4. Locate the 'Bubble Menu – circle floating menu' plugin by Wow-Company.
  5. 5. Check the current version number to confirm it is below 3.0.2.
  6. 6. If an update is available, click 'Update Now' to upgrade to version 3.0.2 or higher.
  7. 7. Alternatively, navigate to Dashboard > Updates and update the plugin from there.
  8. 8. After updating, verify the plugin is running version 3.0.2 or later.

Generated from the published advisory — verify against the referenced sources before acting.

Fix this in Bubble Menu Scoped from the published advisory
  • Consultation1.0 h
  • Implementation2.0 h
  • Testing2.0 h
  • Review / QA1.0 h
6.0 hours of engineering $1,040
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