ThemeGrill Demo Importer 1.3.4 - 1.6.1 - Authorization Bypass to Site Reset

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2020-36837
CVSS Critical (9.9)
Publicly Published February 16, 2020
Last Updated October 16, 2024
Researcher Dave Jong
Description

The ThemeGrill Demo Importer plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authentication bypass due to a missing capability check on the reset_wizard_actions function in versions 1.3.4 through 1.6.1. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers to reset the WordPress database. After which, if there is a user named 'admin', the attacker will become automatically logged in as an administrator.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug themegrill-demo-importer (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • 1.3.4 - 1.6.1
Patched Version
  • 1.6.2
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