Boostify Header Footer Builder for Elementor <= 1.3.5 - Missing Authorization to Page/Post Creation

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2024-4788
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published June 5, 2024
Last Updated July 3, 2024
Researcher Lucio Sá
Description

The Boostify Header Footer Builder for Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the create_bhf_post function in all versions up to, and including, 1.3.5. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to create pages or posts with arbitrary content.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug boostify-header-footer-builder (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.3.5
Patched Version
  • 1.3.6
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