CVE-2021-24635 (GCVE-0-2021-24635)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-09-20 10:06 – Updated: 2024-08-03 19:35
VLAI
Title
Visual Link Preview < 2.2.3 - Unauthorised AJAX Calls
Summary
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
Severity
5.4 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-284 - Improper Access Control
Assigner
WPScan CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 44/100 over 2047 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Unknown Visual Link Preview Affected: 2.2.3 , < 2.2.3 (custom)
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Credits
apple502j
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