Advanced Custom Fields: Image Crop Add-on <= 1.4.12 - Improper Authorization

Improper Authorization
CVE CVE-2023-22676
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published January 13, 2023
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher István Márton
Description

The Advanced Custom Fields: Image Crop Add-on plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Improper Authorization in versions up to, and including, 1.4.12, via the 'acf_image_crop_perform_crop' AJAX action. This allows any authenticated user, including subscriber-level users, to crop and resize images in the media library.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug acf-image-crop-add-on (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Affected Version
  • <= 1.4.12
Patched Version
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