Smart WooCommerce Search <= 2.5.0 - Missing Authorization

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2023-30783
CVSS Medium (5.4)
Publicly Published April 18, 2023
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher István Márton
Description

The Smart WooCommerce Search plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification and loss of data due to missing capability checks on the duplicate() & remove() functions called via AJAX actions in versions up to, and including, 2.5.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to duplicate and delete widgets created by the plugin.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug smart-woocommerce-search (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.5.0
Patched Version
  • 2.5.1
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