WordPress Email Marketing Plugin – WP Email Capture <= 3.10 - Missing Authorization to Email Capture List Download

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2023-28421
CVSS High (8.2)
Publicly Published March 14, 2023
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Nguyen Anh Tien
Description

The WP Email Capture plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized Email Capture list download due to a missing capability check on the wp_email_capture_options_process function in versions up to, and including, 3.10. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to download email captures.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wp-email-capture (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 3.10
Patched Version
  • 3.11
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