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WP DSGVO Tools (GDPR) <= 3.1.23 had an AJAX action, ...

High severity Unreviewed Published May 24, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 27, 2023

Package

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

WP DSGVO Tools (GDPR) <= 3.1.23 had an AJAX action, ‘admin-dismiss-unsubscribe‘, which lacked a capability check and a nonce check and was available to unauthenticated users, and did not check the post type when deleting unsubscription requests. As such, it was possible for an attacker to permanently delete an arbitrary post or page on the site by sending an AJAX request with the “action” parameter set to “admin-dismiss-unsubscribe” and the “id” parameter set to the post to be deleted. Sending such a request would move the post to the trash, and repeating the request would permanently delete the post in question.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Nov 5, 2021
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 24, 2022
Last updated Jan 27, 2023

Severity

High

EPSS score

0.178%
(56th percentile)

CVE ID

CVE-2021-42359

GHSA ID

GHSA-m254-mfgm-2hwx

Source code

No known source code

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