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Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2024-4746
CVE-2024-4746:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
CVE-2024-4746 is a Missing Authorization vulnerability affecting the Netgsm WordPress plugin versions up to and including 2.9.16. The vulnerability was discovered and reported by Dhabaleshwar Das on January 6, 2024, and was publicly disclosed on May 10, 2024 (Patchstack).
Technical details
The vulnerability is classified as a Missing Authorization/Broken Access Control issue (CWE-862). It received a CVSS v3.1 base score of 6.3 MEDIUM (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L) from NVD, while Patchstack assigned it a lower score of 4.3 MEDIUM (CVSS:3.1/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 or higher to perform unauthorized actions within the WordPress installation (Wordfence).
Mitigation and workarounds
The vulnerability has been fixed in version 2.9.33 of the Netgsm plugin. Users are advised to update to this version or later to resolve the security issue. Additionally, Patchstack has issued a virtual patch to mitigate this issue by blocking potential attacks until users can update to a fixed version (Patchstack).
Additional resources
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