WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Social Sharing Plugin - Kiwi 2.1.0 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary WordPress Options Update and Read

Description

The plugin re-introduced an issue in v2.1.0, allowing unauthenticated attacker to update and read arbitrary WordPress options. This could allow them to create admin accounts by enabling registration and setting the user default role to administrator, or to modify the value of siteurl in order to redirect all traffic to an external malicious website

Affects Plugins

Fixed in 2.1.3

References

Classification

Type
ACCESS CONTROLS
CWE

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Jerome Bruandet (nintechnet)
Verified
Yes

Timeline

Publicly Published
2021-06-04 (about 4 years ago)
Added
2021-06-04 (about 4 years ago)
Last Updated
2026-05-04 (about 9 days ago)

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