Responsive <= 5.0.2 - Missing Authorization to HTML Injection

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2024-2848
CVSS High (7.5)
Publicly Published March 28, 2024
Last Updated April 29, 2024
Researcher Muhammad Zeeshan (Xib3rR4dAr), Krzysztof Zając
Description

The Responsive theme for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the save_footer_text_callback function in all versions up to, and including, 5.0.2. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary HTML content into the site's footer.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Theme
Software Slug responsive (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 5.0.2
Patched Version
  • 5.0.3
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