CVE-2024-54269
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

A Missing Authorization vulnerability was identified in Ninja Team's Notibar WordPress plugin, affecting versions up to 2.1.4. The vulnerability was discovered by Aiden (Thái An) on November 23, 2024, and was publicly disclosed on December 11, 2024. The issue relates to broken access control in the plugin's functionality (Patchstack).

Technical details

The vulnerability has been assigned CVE-2024-54269 and received a CVSS v3.1 score of 4.3 (Medium) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N. The issue is classified under CWE-862 (Missing Authorization) and involves incorrectly configured access control security levels that could allow contributor-level users to perform unauthorized actions (Patchstack).

Impact

The vulnerability is classified as having a low severity impact. It involves broken access control issues that could potentially allow unprivileged users to execute certain higher privileged actions within the WordPress installation (Patchstack).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability has been fixed in version 2.1.5 of the Notibar plugin. Users are advised to update to version 2.1.5 or later to remove the vulnerability. Patchstack users have the option to enable auto-update for vulnerable plugins (Patchstack).

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