Album Gallery – WordPress Gallery <= 1.5.7 - Missing Authorization

2024-06-06 00:00

Steven Julian

Strategic Overview

Status

Patched in 1.5.8

Affected PluginAlbum Gallery for Photo & Video

Affected Version<= 1.5.7

CVSS4.3Medium

CVECVE-2024-35720

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Vulnerability Overview

The Album Gallery – WordPress Gallery plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the ajax_album_gallery and _ag_save_settings functions in versions up to, and including, 1.5.7. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to update plugin settings.

Technical Analysis

REMEDIATION: Update to version 1.5.8, 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-2024-35720 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e732031f-378a-4e71-8559-19c5e957d38b

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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