CVE-2021-24635

Visual Link Preview <= 2.2.2 - Unauthorised AJAX Calls

mediumImproper Access Control
5.4
CVSS Score
5.4
CVSS Score
medium
Severity
2.2.3
Patched in
888d
Time to patch

Description

The Visual Link Preview WordPress plugin before 2.2.3 does not enforce authorisation on several AJAX actions and has the CSRF nonce displayed for all authenticated users, allowing any authenticated user (such as subscriber) to call them and 1) Get and search through title and content of Draft post, 2) Get title of a password-protected post as well as 3) Upload an image from an URL

CVSS Vector Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Low
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability

Technical Details

Affected versions<2.2.3
PublishedAugust 18, 2021
Last updatedJanuary 22, 2024
Affected pluginvisual-link-preview

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