Visual Link Preview <= 2.2.2 - Unauthorised AJAX Calls

Improper Access Control
CVE CVE-2021-24635
CVSS Medium (5.4)
Publicly Published August 18, 2021
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher apple502j
Description

The Visual Link Preview WordPress plugin before 2.2.3 does not enforce authorisation on several AJAX actions and has the CSRF nonce displayed for all authenticated users, allowing any authenticated user (such as subscriber) to call them and 1) Get and search through title and content of Draft post, 2) Get title of a password-protected post as well as 3) Upload an image from an URL

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug visual-link-preview (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.2.3
Patched Version
  • 2.2.3
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