Featured Post Creative <= 1.2.7 - Missing Authorization via wpfp_update_featured_post

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2023-30488
CVSS Medium (5.3)
Publicly Published April 13, 2023
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Cat
Description

The Featured Post Creative plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the wpfp_update_featured_post function called via a nopriv AJAX action in versions up to, and including, 1.2.7. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to change what post is featured.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug featured-post-creative (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.2.7
Patched Version
  • 1.2.8
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