Finale Lite <= 2.18.0 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Plugin Installation and Activation

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2024-30485
CVSS Medium (5.4)
Publicly Published March 28, 2024
Last Updated April 4, 2024
Researcher beluga
Description

The Finale Lite – Sales Countdown Timer & Discount for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check in all versions up to, and including, 2.18.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to install and activate arbitrary plugins.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug finale-woocommerce-sales-countdown-timer-discount (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.18.0
Patched Version
  • 2.18.1
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