CVE-2024-10578

Published: Dec 6, 2024Modified: Dec 6, 2024

8.8

Vector

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

Exploitability: 2.8 / Impact: 5.9

Source: security@wordfence.com (Secondary)

Description

The Pubnews theme for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized arbitrary plugin installation due to a missing capability check on the pubnews_importer_plugin_action_for_notice() function in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.7. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to install arbitrary plugins that can be leveraged to exploit other vulnerabilities.

Related CWEs

CWE-434

Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type

The product allows the upload or transfer of dangerous file types that are automatically processed within its environment.

References (3)

https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/browser/pubnews/1.0.7/inc/admin/admin.php#L1017

Source: security@wordfence.com

https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/250743/pubnews/1.0.8?contextall=1&old=245552&old_path=%2Fpubnews%2F1.0.7

Source: security@wordfence.com

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7eaa0117-5320-431f-b3d2-05a867901528?source=cve

Source: security@wordfence.com

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