Draw Attention <= 2.0.11 - Missing Authorization to Arbitrary Post Featured Image Modification

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2023-2764
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published May 30, 2023
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Alex Thomas
Description

The Draw Attention plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the ajax_set_featured_image function in versions up to, and including, 2.0.11. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level permissions and above, to change the featured image of arbitrary posts with an image that exists in the media library.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug draw-attention (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.0.11
Patched Version
  • 2.0.12
This record contains material that is subject to copyright

Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc.
License: Defiant hereby grants you a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable copyright license to reproduce, prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, and distribute this software vulnerability information. Any copy of the software vulnerability information you make for such purposes is authorized provided that you include a hyperlink to this vulnerability record and reproduce Defiant's copyright designation and this license in any such copy. License Detail.