Wbcom Designs – BuddyPress Group Reviews <= 2.8.3 - Unauthorized AJAX Actions due to Nonce Bypass

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2022-2108
CVSS Medium (6.5)
Publicly Published June 16, 2022
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Marco Wotschka
Description

The plugin Wbcom Designs – BuddyPress Group Reviews for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized settings changes and review modification due to missing capability checks and improper nonce checks in several functions related to said actions in versions up to, and including, 2.8.3. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to modify reviews and plugin settings on the affected site.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug review-buddypress-groups (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.8.3
Patched Version
  • 2.8.4
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