Newsletter - API v1 and v2 addon for Newsletter <= 2.4.5 - Missing Authorization to Email Subscribers Management

Missing Authorization

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

CVE	CVE-2024-5674
CVSS	Medium (6.5)
Publicly Published	June 11, 2024
Last Updated	June 12, 2024
Researcher	Arkadiusz Hydzik

Description

The Newsletter - API v1 and v2 addon plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized subscribers management due to PHP type juggling issue on the check_api_key function in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.5. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to list, create or delete newsletter subscribers. This issue affects only sites running the PHP version below 8.0

References

www.wordfence.com

1 affected software package

Software Type	Plugin
Software Slug	newsletter-api (view on wordpress.org)
Patched?	Yes
Affected Version	<= 2.4.5
Patched Version	2.4.6

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