Essential Blocks for Gutenberg <= 3.8.5 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2022-47594
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published January 20, 2023
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Lucio Sá
Description

The Essential Blocks for Gutenberg plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass due to incorrectly defined capability checks throughout the 'EB_Openverse_Ajax' class in versions up to, and including, 3.8.5. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to register Openverse clients, upload images, and perform other Openverse actions via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.  

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug essential-blocks (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 3.8.5
Patched Version
  • 3.8.6
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