Buy Me a Coffee – Button and Widget Plugin <= 3.7 - Missing Authorization

7.3
Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2023-2078
CVSS 7.3 (High)
Publicly Published July 10, 2023
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher István Márton - Wordfence

Description

The "Buy Me a Coffee – Button and Widget Plugin" plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to missing capability checks on the recieve_post, bmc_disconnect, name_post, and widget_post functions in versions up to, and including, 3.7. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with minimal permissions such as subscribers, to update the plugins settings. CVE-2023-25030 may be a duplicate of this issue.

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Vulnerability Details for Buy Me a Coffee – Button and Widget Plugin

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug buymeacoffee (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 3.8, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 3.7
Patched Version
  • 3.8

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