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CVE-2022-2389: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

CVE-2022-2389 affects the Automations By Autonami WordPress plugin versions before 2.1.2. The vulnerability was discovered by Krzysztof Zając and was publicly disclosed on July 26, 2022. This security issue impacts the wp-marketing-automations plugin, which is used for marketing automation and newsletter management in WordPress installations (WPScan).

Technical details

The vulnerability stems from missing authorization and CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery) checks in one of the plugin's AJAX actions. The issue has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 score of 4.3 (Medium) and is classified under CWE-862 (Missing Authorization) and CWE-352 (Cross-Site Request Forgery) (WPScan, NVD).

Impact

The vulnerability allows any authenticated users, including those with low-privilege subscriber roles, to create automations within the system. This could potentially lead to unauthorized automation creation and execution of automated tasks that should be restricted to administrators (WPScan).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability has been fixed in version 2.1.2 of the Automations By Autonami plugin. Users are advised to update to this version or later to mitigate the security risk (WPScan).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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