Tweet Wheel <= 0.2 - Missing Authorization Checks

Missing Authorization
CVE Not available
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published March 7, 2015
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher James Golovich
Description

The Tweet Wheel plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in versions up to, and including, 0.2. This is due to several functions called via AJAX actions missing proper capability and nonce checks. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with minimal permissions such as a subscriber, to spam Twitter with an arbitrary amount of previously posted tweets among some additional less impactful actions.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug tweet-wheel (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 0.2
Patched Version
  • 0.3
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