GDPR CCPA Compliance & Cookie Consent Banner <= 2.7.0 - Missing Authorization to Settings Update and Stored Cross-Site Scripting

2024-06-06 00:00

Lucio Sá

Strategic Overview

Status

Patched in 2.7.1

Affected PluginGDPR CCPA Compliance & Cookie Consent Banner

Affected Version<= 2.7.0

CVSS5.4Medium

CVECVE-2024-5607

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Vulnerability Overview

The GDPR CCPA Compliance & Cookie Consent Banner plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on several functions named ajaxUpdateSettings() in all versions up to, and including, 2.7.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to modify the plugin's settings, update page content, send arbitrary emails and inject malicious web scripts.

Technical Analysis

REMEDIATION: Update to version 2.7.1, 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-2024-5607 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b8f870a6-26a5-4f98-9bd6-12736c561265

CVSS Vector

5.4

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

Base

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

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