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Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2023-36676
CVE-2023-36676:
NixOS vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
A Missing Authorization vulnerability was discovered in Brainstorm Force's Spectra WordPress plugin affecting versions through 2.6.6. The vulnerability was reported by Rafie Muhammad and disclosed on July 14, 2023 (Patchstack).
Technical details
The vulnerability is classified as a Missing Authorization (CWE-862) issue with a CVSS v3.1 base score of 8.8 HIGH (NIST) and 5.4 MEDIUM (Patchstack). The vulnerability vector is CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H according to NIST's assessment (NVD).
Impact
The broken access control issue refers to a missing authorization, authentication, or nonce token check in a function that could allow an unprivileged user to execute certain higher privileged actions (Patchstack).
Mitigation and workarounds
The vulnerability has been patched in version 2.6.7. Users are advised to update to version 2.6.7 or later to remediate this security issue. Patchstack has also issued a virtual patch to mitigate this issue by blocking potential attacks until users can update to a fixed version (Patchstack).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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