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CVE-2024-8123: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The Ultimate WordPress Toolkit – WP Extended plugin for WordPress contains an Insecure Direct Object Reference vulnerability (CVE-2024-8123) affecting all versions up to and including 3.0.8. The vulnerability was discovered and reported by Marco Wotschka from Wordfence, with public disclosure on September 3, 2024 (Wordfence Advisory).

Technical details

The vulnerability exists in the duplicate_post function due to missing validation on a user-controlled key. It has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 base score of 5.4 (Medium) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N. The weakness is classified as CWE-639 (Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key) (NVD).

Impact

This vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with Contributor-level access or higher to duplicate posts written by other authors, including administrators. More critically, it enables the duplication of password-protected posts, which subsequently reveals their protected contents (NVD).

Mitigation and workarounds

Users should upgrade to version 3.0.9 or later of the WP Extended plugin, which contains the fix for this vulnerability (NVD).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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