CVE-2023-5737

WordPress Backup & Migration <= 1.4.3 - Missing Authorization to Settings Update

mediumMissing Authorization

4.3

CVSS Score

4.3

CVSS Score

medium

Severity

1.4.4

Patched in

78d

Time to patch

Description

The WordPress Backup & Migration plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the wt_save_import_settings function in all versions up to, and including, 1.4.3. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to perform a settings update. CVE-2023-52183 appears to be a duplicate of this issue.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

None

Confidentiality

Low

Integrity

None

Availability

Technical Details

Affected versions<=1.4.3

PublishedNovember 6, 2023

Last updatedJanuary 22, 2024

Affected pluginwp-migration-duplicator

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7de132d5-51c9-464c-b687-8e367dd8d846?source=api-prod

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