Image Alt Text <= 2.0.0 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Image Alt Text Update

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2024-11918
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published November 27, 2024
Last Updated November 28, 2024
Researcher Tieu Pham Trong Nhan, t15nNg7y7n (TN)
Description

The Image Alt Text plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data| due to a missing capability check on the iat_add_alt_txt_action and iat_update_alt_txt_action AJAX actions in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to update the alt text on arbitrary images.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug image-alt-text (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.0.0
Patched Version
  • 3.0.0
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