Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2024-38695

CVE-2024-38695:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

CVE-2024-38695 is a Missing Authorization vulnerability affecting Martin Gibson's WP GoToWebinar WordPress plugin through version 15.6. The vulnerability was discovered and reported by Majed Refaea on February 21, 2024, and was publicly disclosed on July 11, 2024 (Patchstack).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as a Missing Authorization (CWE-862) issue that allows exploiting incorrectly configured access control security levels. The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 base score of 4.3 (MEDIUM) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N, indicating network accessibility with low attack complexity and requiring low privileges (Patchstack).

Impact

The vulnerability allows an unprivileged user to execute certain higher privileged actions due to broken access control. The impact is considered low severity, with potential confidentiality impacts but no integrity or availability impacts (Patchstack).

Mitigation and workarounds

Users are advised to update to WP GoToWebinar version 15.7 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 a fixed version (Patchstack).

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Source: This report was generated using AI

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