Language Translate Widget for WordPress – ConveyThis <= 234 - Missing Authorization to Limited Option Update
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 235
- Affected Plugin
- Translate WordPress with ConveyThis – AI Multilingual Plugin
- Affected Version
<= 234- CVSS
- 5.3Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-862 · Missing Authorization
- CVE
CVE-2024-38792
At a glance
CVE-2024-38792 is a medium-severity Missing Authorization vulnerability in the Translate WordPress with ConveyThis WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 234. 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 235; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed July 2024, reported by Humberto Castelo Branco.
Vulnerability Overview
The Language Translate Widget for WordPress – ConveyThis plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check in the /app/connect/ConveyThisStart.php file in versions up to, and including, 234. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update the api_key option in the database.
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
Reaching this weakness in Translate WordPress with ConveyThis <= 234 takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. 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 Translate WordPress with ConveyThis the fix is 235: builds <= 234 are affected, anything from 235 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 235, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
Because it turns on account access, WordSec's login security is the relevant layer: role-based two-factor, captcha and brute-force limits raise the cost of getting the account this needs. None of that substitutes for the fix: Translate WordPress with ConveyThis 235 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Login Security
- Alerts
External References
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