GamiPress <= 6.8.8 - Broken Access Control

Improper Access Control
CVE CVE-2024-2505
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published April 8, 2024
Last Updated May 7, 2024
Researcher cyc707
Description

The GamiPress – The #1 gamification plugin to reward points, achievements, badges & ranks in WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to broken access control in all versions up to, and including, 6.8.8. This is due to the plugin not properly restricting specific actions to authorized users. This makes it possible for authentication attackers, with author-level access and above, to to modify the plugins settings.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug gamipress (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 6.8.8
Patched Version
  • 6.8.9
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