Responsive Image Gallery, Gallery Album <= 2.0.3 - Missing Authorization via Multiple AJAX Actions

2023-10-11 00:00

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Strategic Overview

Status

Unpatched

Affected PluginGallery – Image and Video Gallery with Thumbnails

Affected Version<= 2.0.3

CVSS5.4Medium

CVECVE-2023-45631

View all Gallery – Image and Video Gallery with Thumbnails vulnerabilities

Vulnerability Overview

The Responsive Image Gallery, Gallery Album plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data and loss of data due to missing capability checks on multiple AJAX functions in versions up to, and including, 2.0.3. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to e.g. create galleries, delete galleries, rename albums, delete albums, and more. CVE-2024-37542 may be a duplicate of this.

Technical Analysis

REMEDIATION: No known patch available. Please review the vulnerability's details in depth and employ mitigations based on your organization's risk tolerance. It may be best to uninstall the affected software and find a replacement. --- 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-2023-45631 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/cb08cf02-4766-4093-9306-3b4581f54f77

CVSS Vector

5.4

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

Base

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

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