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Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2024-37453
CVE-2024-37453:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
A Missing Authorization vulnerability was discovered in ProfileGrid User Profiles ProfileGrid plugin versions through 5.8.7. The vulnerability was disclosed on July 1, 2024, and allows exploiting incorrectly configured access control security levels (Patchstack).
Technical details
The vulnerability is classified as a Broken Access Control issue, which refers to missing authorization, authentication or nonce token checks that could allow unprivileged users to execute higher privileged actions. The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 base score of 4.3 MEDIUM, indicating a moderate severity level (Patchstack).
Impact
The security issue has been assessed as having a low severity impact and is considered unlikely to be exploited. The vulnerability requires subscriber-level privileges to be exploited (Patchstack).
Mitigation and workarounds
The vulnerability has been fixed in version 5.8.8 of the ProfileGrid plugin. Users are advised to update to version 5.8.8 or later to remediate the vulnerability. Patchstack users can enable auto-update functionality for vulnerable plugins (Patchstack).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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