Educenter <= 1.5.7 - Missing Authorization via activate_plugin

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2023-30480
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published April 14, 2023
Last Updated January 15, 2025
Researcher Dave Jong
Description

The Educenter theme for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized plugin activation due to a missing capability check on the activate_plugin function called via an AJAX action in versions up to, and including, 1.5.7. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to activate arbitrary plugins.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Theme
Software Slug educenter (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.5.7
Patched Version
  • 1.5.8
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