Popup Box – Create Countdown, Coupon, Video, Contact Form Popups <= 4.9.7 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Limited Options Update

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2024-10861
CVSS Medium (5.3)
Publicly Published November 15, 2024
Last Updated November 16, 2024
Researcher Trương Hữu Phúc (truonghuuphuc)
Description

The Popup Box – Create Countdown, Coupon, Video, Contact Form Popups plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the deactivate_plugin_option() function in all versions up to, and including, 4.9.7. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update the 'ays_pb_upgrade_plugin' option with arbitrary data.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug ays-popup-box (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 4.9.7
Patched Version
  • 4.9.8
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