GS Insever Portfolio <= 1.4.5 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) CSS Injection

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2024-12249
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published January 8, 2025
Last Updated January 9, 2025
Researcher Peter Thaleikis
Description

The GS Insever Portfolio plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the save_settings() function in all versions up to, and including, 1.4.5. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to update the plugin's CSS settings.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug gs-instagram-portfolio (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Affected Version
  • <= 1.4.5
Patched Version
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