Elegant Themes Monarch < 1.2.7 - Privilege Escalation

2016-02-17 00:00

James Golovich

Strategic Overview

Status

Patched in 1.1.1

Affected PluginBloom Email Opt-In

Affected Version<= 1.1.0

CVSS8.8High

CVECVE-2016-11004

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Vulnerability Overview

The Elegant Themes Monarch plugin before 1.2.7 for WordPress has privilege escalation.

Technical Analysis

REMEDIATION: Update to version 1.1.1, or a newer patched version --- IDENTIFIER: CWE-269 (Improper Privilege Management) The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor.

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-11004 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/0195bddf-eafe-45f2-9424-ffa235d9b4dc

CVSS Vector

8.8

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

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredLow
User InteractionNone
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityHigh
IntegrityHigh
AvailabilityHigh

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