Hercules Core <= 6.5 - Missing Authorization to Settings Update

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2024-37232
CVSS Medium (5.4)
Publicly Published June 21, 2024
Last Updated June 27, 2024
Researcher Dave Jong
Description

The Hercules Core plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on a function in all versions up to, and including, 6.5. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to modify the plugin's settings and access them.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug hercules-core (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 6.5
Patched Version
  • 6.7
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