Plum: Spin Wheel & Email Pop-up <= 2.0 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Unpatched
- Affected Plugin
- Plum: Spin Wheel & Email Pop-up
- Affected Version
<= 2.0- CVSS
- 6.1Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-862 · Missing Authorization
- CVE
CVE-2024-38744
At a glance
CVE-2024-38744 is a medium-severity Missing Authorization vulnerability in the Plum WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 2.0. It carries a CVSS score of 6.1 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. No fixed release has been reported yet; treat installations running this software as exposed. Disclosed July 2024, reported by Ananda Dhakal.
Vulnerability Overview
The Plum: Spin Wheel & Email Pop-up plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting due to a missing capability check on a function in all versions up to, and including, 2.0. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks.
Technical Analysis
The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no privileges on the target site.
CWE-862: Missing Authorization
Reaching this weakness in Plum <= 2.0 takes no account at all. A missing authorization check means a function is reachable by anyone who can reach the endpoint, because the code never asks whether the caller is allowed to perform the action.
Any user who can reach the endpoint gets to run an action reserved for higher-privileged roles, from reading protected data to changing settings or content. No fixed build of this plugin is recorded for Plum yet, so installs running <= 2.0 stay exposed until the vendor ships one.
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.
How does WordSec protect against this?
This one needs no account at all, which puts it outside what login hardening can reach; WordSec's login security narrows the account-level paths around it, and the firewall is what inspects the request itself. No patched version is recorded yet, which is the case where a filtering layer matters most, because there is nothing to update to.
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