Getwid – Gutenberg Blocks <= 2.0.10 - Missing Authorization to Google API key update

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2024-6489
CVSS Medium (5.3)
Publicly Published July 19, 2024
Last Updated July 20, 2024
Researcher Peter Thaleikis
Description

The Getwid – Gutenberg Blocks plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the get_google_api_key function in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.10. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to set the MailChimp API key.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug getwid (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.0.10
Patched Version
  • 2.0.11
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