Automatic YouTube Gallery <= 2.3.3 - Missing Authorization via AJAX actions

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2023-41866
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published September 5, 2023
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Rafshanzani Suhada
Description

The Automatic YouTube Gallery plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized plugin settings change due to a missing capability check on the ajax_callback_save_api_key and ajax_callback_delete_cache functions in versions up to, and including, 2.3.3. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to update the plugin API key and delete the plugin cache.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug automatic-youtube-gallery (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.3.3
Patched Version
  • 2.3.5
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