OceanWP <= 3.5.4 - Missing Authorization to Sensitive Information Exposure via Limited Local File Inclusion

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2024-2476
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published March 28, 2024
Last Updated March 29, 2024
Researcher Webbernaut
Description

The OceanWP theme for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data due to a missing capability check on the load_theme_panel_pane function in all versions up to, and including, 3.5.4. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to expose sensitive information such as system/environment data and API keys.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Theme
Software Slug oceanwp (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 3.5.4
Patched Version
  • 3.5.5
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