LightStart – Maintenance Mode, Coming Soon and Landing Page Builder <= 2.6.8 - Missing Authorization

2024-01-05 00:00
Lucio Sá

Vulnerability Overview

The LightStart – Maintenance Mode, Coming Soon and Landing Page Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the insert_template function in all versions up to, and including, 2.6.8. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to change page designs.

Technical Analysis

REMEDIATION: Update to version 2.6.9, 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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