10Web Booster <= 2.24.14 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Option Deletion

Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
CVE CVE-2023-5559
CVSS Medium (6.5)
Publicly Published October 29, 2023
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Krzysztof Zając
Description

The 10Web Booster – Website speed optimization, Cache & Page Speed optimizer plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized loss of data due to insufficient validation on the option value being supplied to the two_init_flow_score and the two_init_flow_score functions hooked via nopriv AJAX in all versions up to, and including, 2.24.14. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete arbitrary option values from the site.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug tenweb-speed-optimizer (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.24.14
Patched Version
  • 2.24.18
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