Security & Malware scan by CleanTalk <= 2.50 - Missing Authorization

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2020-36698
CVSS High (8.8)
Publicly Published July 6, 2020
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Jerome Bruandet
Description

The Security & Malware scan by CleanTalk plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized user interaction in versions up to, and including, 2.50. This is due to missing capability checks on several AJAX actions and nonce disclosure in the source page of the administrative dashboard. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level permissions and above, to call functions and delete and/or upload files.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug security-malware-firewall (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.50
Patched Version
  • 2.51
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