Sandbox <= 0.4 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Sandbox Download

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2024-13367
CVSS Medium (6.5)
Publicly Published January 16, 2025
Last Updated January 17, 2025
Researcher Stiofan
Description

The Sandbox plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to a missing capability check on the export_download action in all versions up to, and including, 0.4. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to download an entire copy of a sandbox environment which can contain sensitive information like the wp-config.php file.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug sandbox (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Affected Version
  • <= 0.4
Patched Version
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