AdForest - Classified Ads WordPress Theme <= 5.1.7 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Post/Attachment Deletion

Missing Authorization

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

CVE	CVE-2024-12855
CVSS	Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published	January 7, 2025
Last Updated	January 8, 2025
Researcher	Lucio Sá

Description

The AdForest theme for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on several AJAX actions like 'sb_remove_ad' in all versions up to, and including, 5.1.7. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to delete posts, attachments and deactivate a license.

References

www.wordfence.com

1 affected software package

Software Type	Theme
Software Slug	adforest (view on wordpress.org)
Patched?	Yes
Affected Version	<= 5.1.7
Patched Version	5.1.8

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