Last Viewed Posts by WPBeginner <= 1.0.1 - Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure

Improper Access Control
CVE CVE-2024-12294
CVSS Medium (5.3)
Publicly Published December 10, 2024
Last Updated December 11, 2024
Researcher Francesco Carlucci
Description

The Last Viewed Posts by WPBeginner plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.1 via the 'get_legacy_cookies' function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to extract sensitive data including titles and permalinks of private, password-protected, pending, and draft posts.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug last-viewed-posts (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.0.1
Patched Version
  • 1.0.2
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