CVE-2023-6980 — The WP SMS – Messaging & SMS Notification for WordPress, WooCommerce, GravityFor

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' a

01What is this vulnerability?

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…

02Affected products

No structured affected-product list available — see references below for vendor advisories.

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2024-01-03T06:15:47.500
• Last modified: 2026-04-08T18:18:46.360

09References

• github.com — https://github.com/wp-sms/wp-sms/commit/0f36e2f521ade8ddfb3e04786defe074370afb50
• plugins.trac.wordpress.org — https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old…
• www.wordfence.com — https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/94ad6b51-ff8d-48d5-9a7…
• github.com — https://github.com/wp-sms/wp-sms/commit/0f36e2f521ade8ddfb3e04786defe074370afb50
• plugins.trac.wordpress.org — https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old…
• www.wordfence.com — https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/94ad6b51-ff8d-48d5-9a7…