CVE-2024-10861

Popup Box – Create Countdown, Coupon, Video, Contact Form Popups <= 4.9.7 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Limited Options Update

2024-11-15 00:00
Trương Hữu Phúc (truonghuuphuc)

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 4.9.8
Affected Plugin
Popup Box – Create Countdown, Coupon, Video, Contact Form Popups
Affected Version
<= 4.9.7
CVSS
5.3Medium
Weakness type
CWE-862 · Missing Authorization
CVE
CVE-2024-10861
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At a glance

CVE-2024-10861 is a medium-severity Missing Authorization vulnerability in the Popup Box WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 4.9.7. It carries a CVSS score of 5.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 4.9.8; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed November 2024, reported by Trương Hữu Phúc (truonghuuphuc).

Vulnerability Overview

The Popup Box – Create Countdown, Coupon, Video, Contact Form Popups plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the deactivate_plugin_option() function in all versions up to, and including, 4.9.7. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update the 'ays_pb_upgrade_plugin' option with arbitrary data.

Technical Analysis

The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no privileges on the target site, and no interaction from a victim user.

CWE-862: Missing Authorization

Popup Box <= 4.9.7 carries this weakness at ays_pb_upgrade_plugin, and reaching it takes no account at all. A missing authorization check means a function is reachable by anyone who can reach the endpoint, because the code never asks whether the caller is allowed to perform the action.

Any user who can reach the endpoint gets to run an action reserved for higher-privileged roles, from reading protected data to changing settings or content. For Popup Box the fix is 4.9.8: builds <= 4.9.7 are affected, anything from 4.9.8 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 4.9.8, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

This one needs no account at all, which puts it outside what login hardening can reach; WordSec's login security narrows the account-level paths around it, and the firewall is what inspects the request itself. None of that substitutes for the fix: Popup Box 4.9.8 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Login Security
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-10861https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c3717e03-9a18-48a1-97d3-1d41c7f93261https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-10861

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