Shield Security <= 17.0.17 - Missing Authorization

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2023-0993
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published April 25, 2023
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Ram
Description

The Shield Security plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Missing Authorization on the 'theme-plugin-file' AJAX action in versions up to, and including, 17.0.17. This allows authenticated attackers to add arbitrary audit log entries indicating that a theme or plugin has been edited, and is also a vector for Cross-Site Scripting via CVE-2023-0992.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wp-simple-firewall (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 17.0.18
Patched Version
  • 17.0.18
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