Social Streams <= 1.2.1 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation
Strategic Overview
Vulnerability Overview
The Social Streams plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.1. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a user's identity prior to updating their user meta information in the update_user_meta() function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to change their user type to that of an administrator.
Technical Analysis
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. --- IDENTIFIER: CWE-272 (Least Privilege Violation) The elevated privilege level required to perform operations such as chroot() should be dropped immediately after the operation is performed.
External References
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