wpDiscuz before 7.6.47 contains a vote manipulation vulnerability that allows attackers to manipulate comment votes by obtaining fresh nonces and bypassing rate limiting through client-controlled headers. Attackers can vary User-Agent headers to reset rate limits, request nonces from the unauthenticated wpdGetNonce endpoint, and vote multiple times using IP rotation or reverse proxy header manipulation.
Weakness
This attack-focused weakness is caused by incorrectly implemented authentication schemes that are subject to spoofing attacks.
Related Attack Patterns
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