CVE-2023-2079: Buymeacoffee Buy Me A Coffee

High severity, CVSS 7.1. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The "Buy Me a Coffee – Button and Widget Plugin" plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery due to missing nonce validation on the recieve_post, bmc_disconnect, name_post, and widget_post functions in versions up to, and including, 3.7. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update the plugins settings, via a forged request granted the attacker can trick a site's administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Affected products

• Buymeacoffee Buy Me A Coffee: before 3.8 (fixed in 3.8)

Published 2023-07-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.