Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2024-43298

CVE-2024-43298:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

A Missing Authorization vulnerability was discovered in the WordPress Clone plugin affecting versions up to 2.4.5. The vulnerability was identified on August 16, 2024, and was assigned CVE-2024-43298. The issue allows exploiting incorrectly configured access control security levels in the Migrate Clone functionality (Patchstack).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as a broken access control issue (CWE-862) related to missing authorization checks. The severity assessment varies between sources, with the NVD assigning a CVSS v3.1 base score of 8.8 (HIGH) with vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H, while Patchstack rates it at 4.3 (MEDIUM) with vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N (NVD).

Impact

The vulnerability could allow an unprivileged user to execute certain higher privileged actions due to the broken access control implementation (Patchstack).

Mitigation and workarounds

Users are advised to update to version 2.4.6 or later to remediate the vulnerability. Patchstack has issued a virtual patch to mitigate this issue by blocking potential attacks until users can update to the fixed version (Patchstack).

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Source: This report was generated using AI

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