Cryptocurrency Widgets – Price Ticker & Coins List <= 2.6.8 - Missing Authorization
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 2.6.9
- Affected Plugin
- Cryptocurrency Widgets – Price Ticker & Coins List
- Affected Version
<= 2.6.8- CVSS
- 4.3Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-862 · Missing Authorization
- CVE
CVE-2024-27953
At a glance
CVE-2024-27953 is a medium-severity Missing Authorization vulnerability in the Cryptocurrency Widgets WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 2.6.8. It carries a CVSS score of 4.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). The root cause is a missing authorization check on a reachable function. The issue is fixed in version 2.6.9; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed March 2024, reported by CatFather.
Vulnerability Overview
The Cryptocurrency Widgets – Price Ticker & Coins List plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to an insufficient capability check on the ccpw_post_type() function in versions up to, and including, 2.6.8. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with author-level access and above, to perform an unauthorized action.
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 interaction from a victim user.
CWE-862: Missing Authorization
Cryptocurrency Widgets <= 2.6.8 carries this weakness at ccpw_post_type(), and reaching it 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 Cryptocurrency Widgets the fix is 2.6.9: builds <= 2.6.8 are affected, anything from 2.6.9 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 2.6.9, 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: Cryptocurrency Widgets 2.6.9 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
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