Unauthorized Access to Post Editing Functionality in Bulk Posts Editing For WordPress Plugin
CVE-2024-4199

4.3MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor
Wordpress
Status
Bulk Posts Editing For WordPress
Vendor
CVE Published:
15 May 2024

Summary

The Bulk Posts Editing For WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of functionality due to a missing capability check on the plugin's AJAX actions in all versions up to, and including, 4.2.3. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber access and higher, to invoke their corresponding functions. This may lead to post creation and duplication, post content retrieval, post taxonomy manipulation.

Affected Version(s)

Bulk Posts Editing For WordPress * <= 4.2.3

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id...
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&s...

CVSS V3.1

Score:
4.3
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
Low
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Benedictus Jovan
.