WordPress Backup & Migration <= 1.4.3 - Missing Authorization to Settings Update

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2023-5737
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published November 6, 2023
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Krzysztof Zając, Abdi Pranata
Description

The WordPress Backup & Migration plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the wt_save_import_settings function in all versions up to, and including, 1.4.3. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to perform a settings update. CVE-2023-52183 appears to be a duplicate of this issue.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wp-migration-duplicator (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.4.3
Patched Version
  • 1.4.4
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