GamiPress <= 2.5.6 - Missing Authorization to User Points Updates

4.3
Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2023-25715
CVSS 4.3 (Medium)
Publicly Published February 13, 2023
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Dave Jong - Patchstack

Description

The GamiPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of user data due to a missing capability check on the gamipress_ajax_profile_update_user_points function in versions up to, and including, 2.5.6. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with subscriber-level access or higher to manipulate rewards points of other users.

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1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug gamipress (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 2.5.7, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 2.5.6
Patched Version
  • 2.5.7

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