CVE-2021-24978 (GCVE-0-2021-24978)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-03-28 17:21 – Updated: 2024-08-03 19:49
VLAI
Title
OSMapper <= 2.1.5 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Post Deletion
Summary
The OSMapper WordPress plugin through 2.1.5 contains an AJAX action to delete a plugin related post type named 'map' and is registered with the wp_ajax_nopriv prefix, making it available to unauthenticated users. There is no authorisation, CSRF and checks in place to ensure that the post to delete is a map one. As a result, unauthenticated user can delete arbitrary posts from the blog
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Unknown OSMapper Affected: 2.1.5 , ≤ 2.1.5 (custom)
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Credits
dc11
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