GS Pins for Pinterest Lite <= 1.8.0 - Missing Authorization via _update_shortcode

Missing Authorization
CVE Not available
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published November 21, 2023
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Description

The WordPress Pinterest Plugin – Make a Popup, User Profile, Masonry and Gallery Layout plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check and a misconfigured nonce check on the _update_shortcode function in all versions up to and including 1.8.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber access and above, to update the plugin's shortcodes.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug gs-pinterest-portfolio (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.8.1
Patched Version
  • 1.8.1
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