SearchWP Premium <= 4.2.5 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Nonce Leakage and Authorization Bypass

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2022-40223
CVSS High (7.1)
Publicly Published October 24, 2022
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Dave Jong
Description

The SearchWP Premium plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass due to leaking a nonce protecting a function used to modify plugin settings in versions up to, and including, 4.2.5. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level permissions and above, to obtain the nonce and modify the plugin's settings.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug searchwp (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 4.2.5
Patched Version
  • 4.2.6
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