Social Auto Poster <= 5.3.14 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Post Meta Update via wpw_auto_poster_update_tweet_template

5.4
Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2024-6754
CVSS 5.4 (Medium)
Publicly Published July 23, 2024
Last Updated July 24, 2024
Researcher István Márton - Wordfence

Description

The Social Auto Poster plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data to a missing capability check on the ‘wpw_auto_poster_update_tweet_template’ function in all versions up to, and including, 5.3.14. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to update arbitrary post metadata.

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Vulnerability Details for Social Auto Poster

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug social-auto-poster
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 5.3.15, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 5.3.14
Patched Version
  • 5.3.15

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