Donations < 1.4 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Options Change

2019-08-03 00:00

Jerome Bruandet

Strategic Overview

Status

Patched in 1.4

Affected PluginDonations

Affected Version< 1.4

CVSS8.2High

CVECVE-2019-15772

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Vulnerability Overview

The Donations plugin before 1.4 for WordPress has a nopriv_ AJAX action that allows modification of the siteurl setting.

Technical Analysis

REMEDIATION: Update to version 1.4, 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-2019-15772 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2b7ca272-88ac-4002-b4ce-73ad5d0510ef

CVSS Vector

8.2

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

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionRequired
ScopeChanged
ConfidentialityNone
IntegrityHigh
AvailabilityLow

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