EmbedPress <= 3.9.11 - Missing Authorization

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2024-31274
CVSS Medium (5.3)
Publicly Published April 5, 2024
Last Updated April 11, 2024
Researcher Kévin Mosbahi (Mika)
Description

The EmbedPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to a missing capability check on the delete_source_data and save_source_data functions in versions up to, and including, 3.9.11. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to modify data sources.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug embedpress (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 3.9.11
Patched Version
  • 3.9.12
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