FKIE_CVE-2023-5506

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2023-11-07 11:15 - Updated: 2026-04-08 18:18
Severity
5.4 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
4.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Summary
The ImageMapper plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized loss of data due to a missing capability check on the 'imgmap_delete_area_ajax' function in versions up to, and including, 1.2.6. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level permissions and above, to delete arbitrary posts and pages.
References
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/imagemapper/tags/1.2.6/imagemapper.php#L748Patch
security@wordfence.comhttps://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/31dff395-c3ce-4ebe-8d38-5243fc4510d6?source=cveThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/imagemapper/tags/1.2.6/imagemapper.php#L748Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/31dff395-c3ce-4ebe-8d38-5243fc4510d6?source=cveThird Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
imagemapper_project imagemapper *
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