Easy Social Feed <= 6.5.1 - Missing Authorization via hide_free_sidebar()

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2023-48740
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published November 23, 2023
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Abdi Pranata
Description

The Easy Social Feed plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the hide_free_sidebar() function in versions up to, and including, 6.5.1. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to dismiss a sidebar notification.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug easy-facebook-likebox (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 6.5.1
Patched Version
  • 6.5.2
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