Bulk NoIndex & NoFollow Toolkit <= 1.5 - Missing Authorization

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2023-41688
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published September 4, 2023
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Skalucy
Description

The Bulk NoIndex & NoFollow Toolkit plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the update_page_callback() and update_page_bulk_callback() functions called via AJAX actions in versions up to, and including, 1.5. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to update post and page's noindex and nofollow statuses.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug bulk-noindex-nofollow-toolkit-by-mad-fish (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.5
Patched Version
  • 1.51
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