Simple Googlebot Visit <= 1.2.4 - Missing Authorization to Settings Update

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2023-38479
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published July 24, 2023
Last Updated February 8, 2024
Researcher Abdi Pranata
Description

The Simple Googlebot Visit plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the save_settings() function hooked via a nopriv AJAX action in versions up to, and including, 1.2.4. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update the plugin's settings.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug simple-googlebot-visit (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.2.4
Patched Version
  • 1.2.5
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