Cryptocurrency Widgets – Price Ticker & Coins List <= 2.6.8 - Missing Authorization

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2024-27953
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published March 13, 2024
Last Updated March 20, 2024
Researcher CatFather
Description

The Cryptocurrency Widgets – Price Ticker & Coins List plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to an insufficient capability check on the ccpw_post_type() function in versions up to, and including, 2.6.8. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with author-level access and above, to perform an unauthorized action.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug cryptocurrency-price-ticker-widget (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.6.8
Patched Version
  • 2.6.9
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