Advanced Post Block – Display Posts, Pages, or Custom Posts on Your Page <= 1.13.4 - Missing Authorization to Information Disclosure

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2024-0908
CVSS Medium (5.3)
Publicly Published April 11, 2024
Last Updated May 9, 2024
Researcher Krzysztof Zając
Description

The Advanced Post Block – Display Posts, Pages, or Custom Posts on Your Page plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data due to a missing capability check on the apbPosts() function hooked via an AJAX action in all versions up to, and including, 1.13.4. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to retrieve all post data, including those that may be password protected.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug advanced-post-block (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.13.4
Patched Version
  • 1.13.5
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