WP Quick FrontEnd Editor <= 5.5 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Content Injection

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2021-4383
CVSS High (8.1)
Publicly Published January 12, 2021
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Jerome Bruandet
Description

The WP Quick FrontEnd Editor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to page content injection in versions up to, and including, 5.5. This is due to missing capability checks in the plugin's page-editing functionality. This makes it possible for low-authenticated attackers, such as subscribers, to edit/create any page or post on the blog.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wp-quick-front-end-editor (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Affected Version
  • <= 5.5
Patched Version
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