The Ultimate WordPress Toolkit – WP Extended <= 3.0.8 - Insecure Direct Object Reference

Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
CVE CVE-2024-8123
CVSS Medium (5.4)
Publicly Published September 3, 2024
Last Updated September 4, 2024
Researcher Marco Wotschka
Description

The The Ultimate WordPress Toolkit – WP Extended plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in all versions up to, and including, 3.0.8 via the duplicate_post function due to missing validation on a user controlled key. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to duplicate posts written by other authors including admins. This includes the ability to duplicate password-protected posts, which reveals their contents.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wpextended (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 3.0.8
Patched Version
  • 3.0.9
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