Fancy Product Designer <= 4.6.9 - Insufficient Authorization to Arbitrary Options Update via fpd_update_options

Improper Authorization
CVE CVE-2021-4334
CVSS High (8.8)
Publicly Published April 5, 2023
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Ram
Description

The Fancy Product Designer plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of site options due to a missing capability check on the fpd_update_options function in versions up to, and including, 4.6.9. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with subscriber-level permissions to modify site options, including setting the default role to administrator which can allow privilege escalation.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug fancy-product-designer (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 4.6.9
Patched Version
  • 4.7.0
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