Featured Post Creative <= 1.2.7 - Missing Authorization via wpfp_update_featured_post

5.3
Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2023-30488
CVSS 5.3 (Medium)
Publicly Published April 13, 2023
Last Updated April 17, 2023
Researcher Cat

Description

The Featured Post Creative plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the wpfp_update_featured_post function called via a nopriv AJAX action in versions up to, and including, 1.2.7. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to change what post is featured.

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Vulnerability Details for Featured Post Creative

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug featured-post-creative (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 1.2.8, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 1.2.7
Patched Version
  • 1.2.8

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