cve-2023-3956
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-07-27 06:54
Modified
2025-02-05 19:38
Severity ?
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
The InstaWP Connect plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data, modification of data and loss of data due to a missing capability check on the 'events_receiver' function in versions up to, and including, 0.0.9.18. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to add, modify or delete post and taxonomy, install, activate or deactivate plugin, change customizer settings, add or modify or delete user including administrator user.
References
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/instawp-connect/tags/0.0.9.18/includes/class-instawp-rest-apis.php#L103Patch
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2942363/instawp-connect#file5Patch
security@wordfence.comhttps://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/48e7acf2-61d4-4762-8657-0701910ce69b?source=cveThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/instawp-connect/tags/0.0.9.18/includes/class-instawp-rest-apis.php#L103Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2942363/instawp-connect#file5Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/48e7acf2-61d4-4762-8657-0701910ce69b?source=cveThird Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
instawp InstaWP Connect – 1-click WP Staging & Migration (beta) Version: *   ≤ 0.0.9.18
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