Schedule Post Changes With PublishPress Future: Unpublish, Delete, Change Status, Trash, Change Categories <= 4.9.2 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Contributor+) Authors' Emails Exposure

Vulnerability Overview

The Schedule Post Changes With PublishPress Future: Unpublish, Delete, Change Status, Trash, Change Categories plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data due to a missing capability check on the getAuthors function in all versions up to, and including, 4.9.2. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to retrieve emails for all users with edit_posts capability.

Technical Analysis

REMEDIATION: Update to version 4.9.3, 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

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