Category Slider for WooCommerce <= 1.4.15 - Missing Authorization via notice dismissal functionality

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2023-41132
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published August 24, 2023
Last Updated April 17, 2024
Researcher Abdi Pranata
Description

The Category Slider for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to missing capability and nonce check on various admin notice dismissal functions in versions up to, and including, 1.4.15. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to dismiss administrative notices.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug woo-category-slider-grid (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.4.15
Patched Version
  • 1.4.16
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