Elespare – Build Your Blog, News & Magazine Websites with Expert-Designed Template Kits. One Click Import: No Coding Skills Required! <= 2.1.2 - Missing Authorization to Subscriber+ Arbitrary Post Creation

2024-04-22 00:00

Lucio Sá

Strategic Overview

Status

Patched in 2.1.3

Affected PluginEleSpare – News, Magazine and Blog Addons for Elementor

Affected Version<= 2.1.2

CVSS4.3Medium

CVECVE-2024-0900

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Vulnerability Overview

The Elespare – Build Your Blog, News & Magazine Websites with Expert-Designed Template Kits. One Click Import: No Coding Skills Required! plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized post creation due to a missing capability check on the elespare_create_post() function hooked via AJAX in all versions up to, and including, 2.1.2. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to create arbitrary posts.

Technical Analysis

REMEDIATION: Update to version 2.1.3, 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-2024-0900 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7f94efa6-b88b-442d-8162-f03efa7f2f65

CVSS Vector

4.3

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

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredLow
User InteractionNone
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityNone
IntegrityLow
AvailabilityNone

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