Ovic Responsive WPBakery <= 1.2.8 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Option Update

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2023-5235
CVSS High (8.8)
Publicly Published November 7, 2023
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Gibran Abdillah
Description

The Ovic Responsive WPBakery plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary option updates due to a missing capability check on the import_options() function hooked via AJAX n in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.8. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to update arbitrary options that can be used for easily privilege escalation.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug ovic-vc-addon (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.2.8
Patched Version
  • 1.2.9
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