Remove Duplicate Posts <= 1.3.5 - Missing Authorization to Post Deletion

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2023-29237
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published July 24, 2023
Last Updated March 25, 2024
Researcher Junsu Yeo
Description

The Remove Duplicate Posts plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the rdp_ajax_process() and rdp_get_result() functions in versions up to, and including, 1.3.5. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to delete posts and retrieve duplicate post ids.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug remove-duplicate-posts (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.3.5
Patched Version
  • 1.3.6
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