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Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2024-37483
CVE-2024-37483:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
A Missing Authorization vulnerability was discovered in The Post Grid WordPress plugin affecting versions through 7.7.4. The vulnerability allows exploiting incorrectly configured access control security levels (NVD, Patchstack).
Technical details
The vulnerability is classified as a Broken Access Control issue with a CVSS v3.1 Base Score of 5.4 (Medium) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N. The issue stems from missing authorization, authentication, or nonce token checks in certain functions, potentially allowing unprivileged users to execute higher privileged actions (Patchstack).
Impact
The vulnerability has been assessed as having a low severity impact. It could potentially allow contributor-level users to perform unauthorized actions due to broken access controls (Patchstack).
Mitigation and workarounds
Users are advised to update to version 7.7.5 or later to remediate this vulnerability. Patchstack has issued a virtual patch to mitigate this issue by blocking potential attacks until users can update to the fixed version (Patchstack).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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