Post Meta Data Manager <=1.2.0 - Missing Authorization to User, Term, and Post Meta Deletion

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2023-5426
CVSS High (7.5)
Publicly Published October 27, 2023
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Francesco Carlucci
Description

The Post Meta Data Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the pmdm_wp_delete_user_meta, pmdm_wp_delete_term_meta, and pmdm_wp_ajax_delete_meta functions in versions up to, and including, 1.2.0. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete user, term, and post meta belonging to arbitrary users.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug post-meta-data-manager (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.2.0
Patched Version
  • 1.2.1
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