Booster Elementor Addons <= 1.4.9 - Missing Authorization

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2023-38480
CVSS Medium (6.5)
Publicly Published July 24, 2023
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Abdi Pranata
Description

The Booster Elementor Addons plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access and modification of data due to missing capability checks on several functions called via nopriv AJAX actions in the ~/base/core/ajax_handler.php file in versions up to, and including, 1.4.9. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to perform a variety of actions such as load the icon chooser and save active widgets and extensions.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug booster-for-elementor (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Affected Version
  • <= 1.4.9
Patched Version
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