WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Gutenberg Template Library & Redux Framework < 4.2.13 - Contributor+ Arbitrary Plugin Installation and Post Deletion

Description

The plugin did not correctly check the authorisation in the redux/v1/templates/ REST API namespace, allowing any users with the edit_posts capability (ie contributor and above) to call the endpoints define in it. By using the redux/v1/templates/plugin-install one, they could install plugins from the WordPres repository, or delete arbitrary posts/pages via redux/v1/templates/delete_saved_block

Affects Plugins

Fixed in 4.2.13

References

Classification

Type
ACCESS CONTROLS
CWE
CVSS

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Ram Gall (Wordfence)
Verified
Yes

Timeline

Publicly Published
2021-09-01 (about 4 years ago)
Added
2021-09-01 (about 4 years ago)
Last Updated
2022-04-08 (about 3 years ago)

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