Multiple sparklewpthemes Themes (Various versions) - Missing Authorization to Arbitrary Plugin Activation

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2023-32959
CVSS Medium (5.3)
Publicly Published May 16, 2023
Last Updated November 7, 2024
Researcher Dave Jong
Description

Several themes for WordPress are vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the activate_plugin() function called via an AJAX action in various versions. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to activate arbitrary plugins.

References

11 affected software package

Software Type Theme
Software Slug kathmag (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Affected Version
  • <= 1.0.6
Patched Version
Software Type Theme
Software Slug online-estore (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Affected Version
  • <= 1.0.9
Patched Version
Software Type Theme
Software Slug spidermag (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Affected Version
  • <= 1.1.7
Patched Version
Software Type Theme
Software Slug medical-heed (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.1.6
Patched Version
  • 1.1.7
Software Type Theme
Software Slug appzend (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.2.3
Patched Version
  • 1.2.4
Software Type Theme
Software Slug buzzstore (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Affected Version
  • <= 1.3.6
Patched Version
Software Type Theme
Software Slug craft-blog (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Affected Version
  • <= 1.0.7
Patched Version
Software Type Theme
Software Slug fitness-park (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Affected Version
  • <= *
Patched Version
Software Type Theme
Software Slug kingcabs (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.1.8
Patched Version
  • 1.1.9
Software Type Theme
Software Slug metrostore (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.3.2
Patched Version
  • 1.3.3
Software Type Theme
Software Slug sparklestore (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.6.2
Patched Version
  • 1.6.3
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