Plausible Analytics <= 1.2.3 - Missing Authorization

Missing Authorization
CVE Not available
CVSS Medium (6.3)
Publicly Published May 27, 2022
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Ankur Modi
Description

The Plausible Analytics plugin is vulnerable to unauthorized setting changes in versions up to, and including, 1.2.3 due to an improperly configured capability and nonce check on the save_admin_settings() function. This could be exploited by any authenticated user, including those with minimal capabilities like subscribers.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug plausible-analytics (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.2.3
Patched Version
  • 1.2.4
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