Health Check & Troubleshooting <= 1.2.3 - Missing Authorization Checks

Missing Authorization
CVE Not available
CVSS High (8.8)
Publicly Published January 25, 2018
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Julien Legras
Description

The Health Check & Troubleshooting plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized execution of AJAX actions by subscriber level users and above in versions up to, and including 1.2.3. This is due to missing capability checks on the various functions hooked via AJAX actions in the plugin and can lead to attackers performing a variety of unauthorized actions.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug health-check (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.2.3
Patched Version
  • 1.2.4
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