Networker - Tech News WordPress Theme with Dark Mode <= 1.1.9 - Missing Authorization
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 1.1.10
- Affected Theme
- Networker - Tech News WordPress Theme with Dark Mode
- Affected Version
<= 1.1.9- CVSS
- 5.3Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-862 · Missing Authorization
- CVE
CVE-2024-2962
At a glance
CVE-2024-2962 is a medium-severity Missing Authorization vulnerability in the Networker - Tech News WordPress Theme with Dark Mode WordPress theme, affecting versions <= 1.1.9. It carries a CVSS score of 5.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 1.1.10; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed March 2024, reported by Muhammad Zeeshan (Xib3rR4dAr).
Vulnerability Overview
The Networker - Tech News WordPress Theme with Dark Mode theme for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the admin_reload_nav_menu() function in all versions up to, and including, 1.1.9. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to modify the location of display menus.
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, and no interaction from a victim user.
CWE-862: Missing Authorization
Networker - Tech News WordPress Theme with Dark Mode <= 1.1.9 carries this weakness at admin_reload_nav_menu(), and reaching it takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. 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. For Networker - Tech News WordPress Theme with Dark Mode the fix is 1.1.10: builds <= 1.1.9 are affected, anything from 1.1.10 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 1.1.10, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
Because it turns on account access, WordSec's login security is the relevant layer: role-based two-factor, captcha and brute-force limits raise the cost of getting the account this needs. None of that substitutes for the fix: Networker - Tech News WordPress Theme with Dark Mode 1.1.10 closes this, and updating the theme is the step that ends it.
- Login Security
- Alerts
External References
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