AI Post Generator | AutoWriter <= 3.3 - Missing Authorization

2024-03-21 00:00

Lucio Sá

Strategic Overview

Status

Patched in 3.4

Affected PluginAI Post Generator | AutoWriter

Affected Version<= 3.3

CVSS6.3Medium

CVECVE-2024-1850

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Vulnerability Overview

The AI Post Generator | AutoWriter plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access, modification or deletion of posts due to a missing capability check on functions hooked by AJAX actions in all versions up to, and including, 3.3. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber access or higher, to view all posts generated with this plugin (even in non-published status), create new posts (and publish them), publish unpublished post or perform post deletions. CVE-2024-32713 may be a duplicate of this issue.

Technical Analysis

REMEDIATION: Update to version 3.4, or a newer patched version --- IDENTIFIER: CWE-862 (Missing Authorization) The product does not perform an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action.

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-1850 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/43fc47ca-15ca-4817-b1b8-389245725e73

CVSS Vector

6.3

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredLow
User InteractionNone
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityLow
IntegrityLow
AvailabilityLow

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