WP Quick Post Duplicator <= 2.0 - Missing Authorization

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2023-31214
CVSS Medium (5.4)
Publicly Published July 25, 2023
Last Updated January 24, 2024
Researcher TaeEun Lee
Description

The WP Quick Post Duplicator plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data due to a missing capability check on the apj_duplicate_post_as_a_draft() function in versions up to, and including, 2.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to duplicate arbitrary posts that may have protected content.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wp-quick-post-duplicator (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.0
Patched Version
  • 2.1
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