Announcer – Notification & message bars <= 6.0 - Missing Authorization

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2024-31261
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published April 5, 2024
Last Updated April 10, 2024
Researcher Abdi Pranata
Description

The Announcer – Notification & message bars plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to a missing capability check on the admin_ajax() function in versions up to, and including, 6.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to update some settings.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug announcer (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 6.0
Patched Version
  • 6.0.1
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