Smush – Lazy Load Images, Optimize & Compress Images <= 3.16.4 - Missing Authorization to Resmush List Deletion

Missing Authorization

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

CVE	CVE-2023-3352
CVSS	Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published	June 20, 2024
Last Updated	June 21, 2024
Researcher	Truoc Phan, An Đặng

Description

The Smush plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized deletion of the resmush list due to a missing capability check on the delete_resmush_list() function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with minimal permissions such as a subscriber, to delete the resmush list for Nextgen or the Media Library.

References

www.wordfence.com

1 affected software package

Software Type	Plugin
Software Slug	wp-smushit (view on wordpress.org)
Patched?	Yes
Affected Version	<= 3.16.4
Patched Version	3.16.5

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