WP Activity Log Premium <= 4.5.0 - Missing Authorization via ajax_switch_db

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2023-2284
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published May 17, 2023
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Marco Wotschka
Description

The WP Activity Log Premium plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the ajax_switch_db function in versions up to, and including, 4.5.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with subscriber-level or higher to make changes to the plugin's settings.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wp-security-audit-log-premium (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 4.5.0
Patched Version
  • 4.5.2
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