MailerLite – Signup forms (official) <= 1.7.6 - Missing Authorization

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2024-2797
CVSS Medium (5.3)
Publicly Published April 29, 2024
Last Updated May 2, 2024
Researcher Krzysztof Zając
Description

The MailerLite – Signup forms (official) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized plugin setting changes due to a missing capability check on the toggleRolesAndPermissions and editAllowedRolesAndPermissions functions in all versions up to, and including, 1.7.6. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to allow lower level users to modify forms.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug official-mailerlite-sign-up-forms (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.7.6
Patched Version
  • 1.7.7
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