WordPress Console <= 0.3.9 - Missing Authorization via reload.php

Missing Authorization

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

CVE	CVE-2023-28168
CVSS	Medium (5.3)
Publicly Published	March 14, 2023
Last Updated	January 22, 2024
Researcher	Prasanna V Balaji

Description

The WordPress Console plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data and execution of files due to missing authorization in several files such as reload.php, complete.php, and query that is also missing direct file access controls in versions up to, and including, 0.3.9. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to unset the '$_SESSION['console_vars']' and '$_SESSION['partial']' variables and potentially achieve remote code execution if they can successfully exploit the type juggling weakness in query.php.

References

www.wordfence.com

1 affected software package

Software Type	Plugin
Software Slug	wordpress-console (view on wordpress.org)
Patched?	No
Affected Version	<= 0.3.9
Patched Version

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