Beaver Builder – WordPress Page Builder (Free & Pro) <= 1.7 - Authorization Bypass

6.3
Missing Authorization
CVSS 6.3 (Medium)
Publicly Published February 8, 2016
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher James Golovich

Description

The Beaver Builder – WordPress Page Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in versions up to, and including, 1.7 due to bypass in how the capability checking functionality works in the call_action() function. An attacker is able to supply '0' for the 'post_id' parameter which makes the check that a current user can edit the supplied post ID true. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with minimal permissions like a subscriber, to call any of the 40+ AJAX action available and perform many unauthorized actions.

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Vulnerability Details for Beaver Builder – WordPress Page Builder

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug beaver-builder-lite-version (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 1.7.1, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 1.7
Patched Version
  • 1.7.1

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