Authenticated Attackers Can Create Duplicates of Users and Posts/Pages via Missing Capability Check
CVE-2024-5997

4.3MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor
Wordpress
Status
Duplica – Duplicate Posts, Pages, Custom Posts Or Users
Vendor
CVE Published:
18 July 2024

Summary

The Duplica – Duplicate Posts, Pages, Custom Posts or Users plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the duplicate_user and duplicate_post functions in all versions up to, and including, 0.6. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to create duplicates of users and posts/pages.

Affected Version(s)

Duplica – Duplicate Posts, Pages, Custom Posts or Users * <= 0.6

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id...
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/duplica/tags/0...
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/duplica/tags/0...

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

Credit

Lucio Sá
.