WP GDPR Compliance <= 1.4.2 - Arbitrary Options Update and Action Calling

Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
CVE CVE-2018-19207
CVSS Critical (9.8)
Publicly Published November 8, 2018
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Adrian Mörchen
Description

The WP GDPR Compliance plugin for WordPress is vulnerability to arbitrary options updates and action calling in versions up to, and including 1.4.2 due to insufficient capability checking on the wpgdprc_process_action AJAX action. This missing it possible for unauthenticated attackers to trigger the AJAX action and make updates to the sites options that can be used to create administrative user accounts.

References

1 affected software package

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