Last Viewed Posts by WPBeginner <= 1.0.1 - Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure

5.3
Improper Access Control
CVE CVE-2024-12294
CVSS 5.3 (Medium)
Publicly Published December 10, 2024
Last Updated December 11, 2024
Researcher Francesco Carlucci

Description

The Last Viewed Posts by WPBeginner plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.1 via the 'get_legacy_cookies' function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to extract sensitive data including titles and permalinks of private, password-protected, pending, and draft posts.

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Vulnerability Details for Last Viewed Posts by WPBeginner

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug last-viewed-posts (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 1.0.2, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 1.0.1
Patched Version
  • 1.0.2

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