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Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2024-37232
CVE-2024-37232:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
A Missing Authorization vulnerability was discovered in Hercules Design Hercules Core plugin affecting versions up to 6.5. The vulnerability was disclosed on June 21, 2024, and allows exploiting incorrectly configured access control security levels (Patchstack).
Technical details
The vulnerability has been assigned CVE-2024-37232 and received a CVSS v3.1 base score of 8.8 (HIGH) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H. The vulnerability is classified under CWE-862 (Missing Authorization) and requires subscriber-level privileges to exploit (Patchstack).
Impact
The vulnerability allows subscribers to perform arbitrary settings changes and gain unauthorized access to settings functionality. This is considered highly dangerous and is expected to become mass exploited (Patchstack).
Mitigation and workarounds
The vulnerability has been fixed in version 6.7 of the Hercules Core plugin. Users are advised to update to version 6.7 or later immediately. Patchstack has issued a virtual patch to mitigate this issue by blocking attacks until users update to the fixed version (Patchstack).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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