WordPress Headless CMS Plugin <= 2.0.3 is vulnerable to a medium priority Broken Authentication

Medium priority Mitigation available
<= 2.0.3Vulnerable version(s)
No official fix availableFixed version

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Risks

CVSS 5.3

This vulnerability is moderately dangerous and expected to become exploited.

5.3

Broken Authentication

This can be abused by a malicious actor to perform action which normally should only be able to be executed by higher privileged users. These actions might allow the malicious actor to gain admin access to the website.

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Solutions

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Details

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Timeline

Reported byProfile ImageYuki Haruma

23 Jun, 2023

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