WPQA - Builder forms Addon For WordPress < 5.2 - Insecure Direct Object Reference to Profile Picture Deletion

Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
CVE CVE-2022-1349
CVSS Medium (6.4)
Publicly Published April 21, 2022
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Binit Ghimire
Description

The WPQA Builder Plugin WordPress plugin before 5.2, used as a companion plugin for the Discy and Himer , does not validate that the value passed to the image_id parameter of the ajax action wpqa_remove_image belongs to the requesting user, allowing any users (with privileges as low as Subscriber) to delete the profile pictures of any other user.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wpqa (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 5.2
Patched Version
  • 5.2
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