WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Classified Listing < 5.4.3 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Feature Modification via Multiple AJAX Handlers ('listingId'/'id' Parameters)

Description

The Classified Listing – Classified ads & Business Directory plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Missing Authorization in all versions up to, and including, 5.4.2. This is due to a missing capability/ownership check on the gallery_image_update_as_feature AJAX handler (action: rtcl_fb_gallery_image_update_as_feature), which accepts a user-supplied listing ID and attachment ID and sets the featured image of a listing while only validating a nonce that is exposed to any logged-in user on the frontend listing-submission form. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to change the featured image of arbitrary listings they do not own.

Affects Plugins

Fixed in 5.4.3

References

Classification

Type
NO AUTHORISATION
CWE

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Ben Tamam (Ben Tamam)
Verified
No

Timeline

Publicly Published
2026-06-18 (about 2 months ago)
Added
2026-06-18 (about 2 months ago)
Last Updated
2026-06-19 (about 2 months ago)

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