Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2024-43260

CVE-2024-43260:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

A Missing Authorization vulnerability was discovered in Creative Motion's Clearfy Cache WordPress plugin affecting versions up to 2.2.4. The vulnerability was reported on March 29, 2024, and publicly disclosed on August 12, 2024 (Patchstack).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as a Broken Access Control issue (CWE-862) with a CVSS v3.1 score of 5.4 (Medium). The security flaw stems from missing authorization checks that could allow unprivileged users to execute higher privileged actions. The vulnerability requires a Subscriber level privilege for exploitation (Patchstack).

Impact

The vulnerability has been assessed as having a low severity impact and is considered unlikely to be exploited. It could potentially allow unauthorized users to perform actions that should be restricted to users with higher privilege levels (Patchstack).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability has been patched in version 2.2.5 of the Clearfy Cache plugin. Users are advised to update to this version or later to remediate the security issue. Additionally, 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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