Revive Old Posts – Social Media Auto Post and Scheduling Plugin < 8.0.0 - Authorization Bypass

Improper Authorization
CVE Not available
CVSS High (8.6)
Publicly Published February 2, 2015
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher James Hooker
Description

The Revive Old Posts – Social Media Auto Post and Scheduling Plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Authorization Bypass due to a missing capability check on the update_response AJAX action in versions before 8.0.0. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to create a new account with administrative-level privileges. This issue was not fully patched until the core.php file was removed in version 8.0.0 since the capability check implemented (is_admin) was not sufficient.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug tweet-old-post (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 8.0.0
Patched Version
  • 8.0.0
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