CVE-2024-4199 (GCVE-0-2024-4199)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-05-15 01:56 – Updated: 2026-04-08 16:58
VLAI
Title
Bulk Posts Editing For WordPress <= 4.2.3 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Missing Authorization
Summary
The Bulk Posts Editing For WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of functionality due to a missing capability check on the plugin's AJAX actions in all versions up to, and including, 4.2.3. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber access and higher, to invoke their corresponding functions. This may lead to post creation and duplication, post content retrieval, post taxonomy manipulation.
Severity
4.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-05-16 16:03 UTC
CWE
Assigner
Wordfence CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 65/100 over 2373 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
ithemelandco WPBULKiT – Bulk Edit WordPress Posts & Pages Affected: 0 , ≤ 4.2.3 (semver)
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Credits
Benedictus Jovan
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