Defender Security <= 4.7.2 - Missing Authorization

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2024-37444
CVSS Medium (5.3)
Publicly Published June 28, 2024
Last Updated July 2, 2024
Researcher Rafie Muhammad
Description

The Defender Security plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the clear_config_transient() function in versions up to, and including, 4.7.2. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to clear config data.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug defender-security (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 4.7.2
Patched Version
  • 4.7.3
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