Contact List – Easy Business Directory, Staff Directory and Address Book Plugin <= 2.9.87 - Missing Authorization to Notice Dismissal

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2024-34821
CVSS Medium (5.3)
Publicly Published May 9, 2024
Last Updated May 15, 2024
Researcher Dhabaleshwar Das
Description

The Contact List – Easy Business Directory, Staff Directory and Address Book Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the process_notifications() function in versions up to, and including, 2.9.87. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to dismiss notices.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug contact-list (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.9.87
Patched Version
  • 2.9.88
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