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CVE-2024-43296:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
The Flash & HTML5 Video plugin for WordPress contains a Missing Authorization vulnerability (CVE-2024-43296) that affects versions up to and including 2.5.30. The vulnerability was discovered by Ananda Dhakal and publicly disclosed on August 16, 2024 (Patchstack).
Technical details
The vulnerability is classified as a Missing Authorization (CWE-862) issue due to missing capability checks on several AJAX actions. The vulnerability has received varying CVSS v3.1 scores: NIST assigned a High severity score of 8.8 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H), while Patchstack assigned a Medium severity score of 4.3 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N) (NVD).
Impact
The vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with subscriber-level access and above to perform unauthorized actions including updating views and creating thumbnails (WPScan).
Mitigation and workarounds
Users are advised to update to version 2.5.31 or later which contains the fix for this vulnerability. Patchstack has also 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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