Sweet Date <= 3.7.3 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2024-43222
CVSS Critical (9.8)
Publicly Published December 3, 2024
Last Updated December 12, 2024
Researcher luc
Description

The Sweet Date theme for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation due to a missing capability check on a function in all versions up to, and including, 3.7.3. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to gain elevated access to a site.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Theme
Software Slug sweetdate (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 3.7.3
Patched Version
  • 3.8.0
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