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CVE-2024-37516: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The Featured Image from URL (FIFU) WordPress plugin version 4.8.2 and earlier contains a Missing Authorization vulnerability (CVE-2024-37516). The vulnerability was discovered by Rafie Muhammad and disclosed on July 5, 2024. This security issue affects the fifu.App Featured Image from URL component and allows exploiting incorrectly configured access control security levels (Patchstack).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as a broken access control issue with a CVSS v3.1 base score of 6.3 (Medium) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L. The issue stems from missing authorization, authentication, or nonce token checks in a function that could allow an unprivileged user to execute certain higher privileged actions (Patchstack).

Impact

The vulnerability has been assessed as having a low severity impact. If exploited, it could allow unprivileged users to perform actions that should be restricted to users with higher privileges (Patchstack).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability has been fixed in version 4.8.3 of the Featured Image from URL plugin. Users are advised to update to version 4.8.3 or later to remove the vulnerability (Patchstack).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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