CVE-2023-2010: incsub forminator Race Condition

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2023-2010 is a medium (CVSS 5.3) Race Condition vulnerability in incsub forminator. EPSS estimates a 0.36% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 28.1% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded. Fixed in 1.24.1.

Timeline

1. 04-07-2023
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 22-11-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

The Forminator WordPress plugin before 1.24.1 does not use an atomic operation to check whether a user has already voted, and then update that information. This leads to a Race Condition that may allow a single user to vote multiple times on a poll.

• CWE-362Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')The product contains a concurrent code sequence that requires temporary, exclusive access to a shared resource, but a timing window exists in which the shared resource can be modified by another code sequence operating concurrently.