Notification for Telegram <= 3.3.1 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Send Telegram Test Message

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2024-9685
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published October 9, 2024
Last Updated October 10, 2024
Researcher István Márton
Description

The Notification for Telegram plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized test message sending due to a missing capability check on the 'nftb_test_action' function in versions up to, and including, 3.3.1. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to send a test message via the Telegram Bot API to all users configured in the settings.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug notification-for-telegram (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 3.3.1
Patched Version
  • 3.3.2
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