OSMapper <= 2.1.5 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Post Deletion

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2021-24978
CVSS Medium (5.3)
Publicly Published March 1, 2022
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher dc11
Description

The OSMapper WordPress plugin through 2.1.5 contains an AJAX action to delete a plugin related post type named 'map' and is registered with the wp_ajax_nopriv prefix, making it available to unauthenticated users. There is no authorisation, CSRF and checks in place to ensure that the post to delete is a map one. As a result, unauthenticated user can delete arbitrary posts from the blog

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug osmapper (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Affected Version
  • <= 2.1.5
Patched Version
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