CVE-2024-7381 - Authorization

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CVE Information

Original CVE data

Published: September 5, 2024

Updated: September 5, 2024

The Geo Controller plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized shortcode execution due to missing authorization and capability checks on the ajax__shortcode_cache function in all versions up to, and including, 8.6.9. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary shortcodes available on the target site.

CWE: CWE-862

CVSS v2-

CVSS v35.3

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4ed7b13a-eec3-4035-8815-15228fb05af1?source=cve

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cf-geoplugin/tags/8.6.9/inc/classes/Shortcodes.php

Affected Vendors

Creativform - (1)

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Basic Analysis

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Vulnerabilty type as detected by PRIOⁿengine

Authorization

CVSS Scores as calculated by PRIOⁿengine

CVSS v27.5

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS v39.8

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

MITRE CWE Top 25

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Exploits

No exploit code is reported to exist.

Active Exploitation

Vulnerability is not in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. See the KEV Catalog

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Threat Actor Activity

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Compliance Impact

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Web Application Security Frameworks

Applicable if the issue likely affects a web application

WASC-8 - Cross Site Scripting