WiserNotify Social Proof <= 2.5 - Missing Authorization

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2023-41690
CVSS Medium (5.3)
Publicly Published September 4, 2023
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Abdi Pranata
Description

The WiserNotify Social Proof plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the varify_api() function hooked via an AJAX action in versions up to, and including, 2.5. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to trigger API verification.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wiser-notify (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.5
Patched Version
  • 2.6
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