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GHSA-XHW5-6M93-PMPJ

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-24 17:37 – Updated: 2022-05-24 17:37

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An issue was discovered in the PageLayer plugin before 1.1.2 for WordPress. Nearly all of the AJAX action endpoints lacked permission checks, allowing these actions to be executed by anyone authenticated on the site. This happened because nonces were used as a means of authorization, but a nonce was present in a publicly viewable page. The greatest impact was the pagelayer_save_content function that allowed pages to be modified and allowed XSS to occur.

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CVE-2020-35947 (GCVE-0-2020-35947)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-01-01 03:27 – Updated: 2024-08-04 17:16

Summary

Severity

7.4 (High)


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

CWE

Assigner

mitre CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard E 28/100 over 2338 records in the last 180 days details

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2020/05/high-sever…	x_refsource_MISC
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/10239	x_refsource_MISC

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