Swape - App Showcase & App Store WordPress Theme < 1.2.1 - Missing Authorization to Arbitrary Options Update

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2018-21013
CVSS Critical (9.8)
Publicly Published February 8, 2018
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Aaron Bernstein
Description

The "Swape - App Showcase & App Store WordPress Theme" theme for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass due to a missing capability check on the 'call_upper_load_settings' AJAX action in versions up to 1.2.1. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to modify arbitrary site options which can be used to create new administrative user accounts and achieve privilege escalation.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Theme
Software Slug swape (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.2.1
Patched Version
  • 1.2.1
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