WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

LiteSpeed Cache < 6.4 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation

Description

The plugin is vulnerable to privilege escalations due to the plugin not properly restricting the role simulation functionality allowing a user to set their current ID to that of an administrator, if they have access to a valid hash which can be found in the debug logs or brute forced. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to spoof their user ID to that of an administrator, and then create a new user account with the administrator role utilizing the /wp-json/wp/v2/users REST API endpoint. In some environments, the crawler may be disabled making this a non-exploitable issue in those instances.

Affects Plugins

Fixed in 6.4

References

Classification

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
John Blackbourn
Verified
No

Timeline

Publicly Published
2024-08-21 (about 1 year ago)
Added
2024-08-21 (about 1 year ago)
Last Updated
2024-08-21 (about 1 year ago)

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