Square Thumbnails <= 1.1.0 - Missing Authorization

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2023-49851
CVSS Medium (5.3)
Publicly Published December 7, 2023
Last Updated July 3, 2024
Researcher Nguyen Xuan Chien
Description

The Square Thumbnails plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to a missing capability check on an the sqt_settings_save() function in versions up to, and including, 1.1.0. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update the plugin's settings.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug square-thumbnails (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.1.0
Patched Version
  • 1.1.2
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