LiteSpeed Cache <= 6.5.1 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation

Incorrect Privilege Assignment
CVE CVE-2024-50550
CVSS High (8.1)
Publicly Published October 29, 2024
Last Updated December 12, 2024
Researcher TaiYou
Description

The LiteSpeed Cache plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 6.5.1. This is due to the is_role_simulation() function not properly providing protection against unauthorized use of the function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to simulate roles such as administrators which provides elevated access to the site. Please note there are a lot of pre-requisites for this to be exploitable.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug litespeed-cache (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 6.5.1
Patched Version
  • 6.5.2
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