Bulk Posts Editing For WordPress <= 4.2.3 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Missing Authorization

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2024-4199
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published May 14, 2024
Last Updated May 15, 2024
Researcher Benedictus Jovan (aillesiM)
Description

The Bulk Posts Editing For WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of functionality due to a missing capability check on the plugin's AJAX actions in all versions up to, and including, 4.2.3. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber access and higher, to invoke their corresponding functions. This may lead to post creation and duplication, post content retrieval, post taxonomy manipulation.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug ithemeland-bulk-posts-editing-lite (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 4.2.3
Patched Version
  • 4.2.4
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