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CVE-2024-6621: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The RSS Aggregator – RSS Import, News Feeds, Feed to Post, and Autoblogging plugin for WordPress contains a vulnerability (CVE-2024-6621) discovered in July 2024. The vulnerability affects all versions up to and including 4.23.11, due to a missing capability check on the 'wprssactivatefeedsource' and 'wprsspausefeedsource' functions (NVD).

Technical details

The vulnerability is characterized by a missing capability check that affects two specific functions: 'wprssactivatefeedsource' and 'wprsspausefeedsource'. It has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 Base 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 (Wordfence).

Impact

The vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with Subscriber-level access and above to activate or pause existing RSS feeds without proper authorization. This unauthorized modification of data could potentially disrupt the intended feed management functionality of the website (NVD).

Mitigation and workarounds

Users should upgrade to version 4.23.12 or later which contains the fix for this vulnerability. The fix implements proper capability checks for the affected functions (NVD).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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