Enhanced Text Widget <= 1.6.3 - Missing Authorization via etw_hide_admin_notification_callback

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2023-49192
CVSS Medium (5.3)
Publicly Published December 1, 2023
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Abdi Pranata
Description

The Enhanced Text Widget plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the etw_hide_admin_notification_callback function in versions up to, and including, 1.6.3. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to hide admin notifications.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug enhanced-text-widget (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.6.3
Patched Version
  • 1.6.4
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