ThemeGrill Demo Importer 1.3.4 - 1.6.1 - Authorization Bypass to Site Reset

9.9
Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2020-36837
CVSS 9.9 (Critical)
Publicly Published February 16, 2020
Last Updated October 16, 2024
Researcher Dave Jong - Patchstack

Description

The ThemeGrill Demo Importer plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authentication bypass due to a missing capability check on the reset_wizard_actions function in versions 1.3.4 through 1.6.1. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers to reset the WordPress database. After which, if there is a user named 'admin', the attacker will become automatically logged in as an administrator.

Wordfence blocked 75,781 attacks targeting this vulnerability in the past 24 hours.

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Vulnerability Details for ThemeGrill Demo Importer

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug themegrill-demo-importer (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 1.6.2, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • 1.3.4 - 1.6.1
Patched Version
  • 1.6.2

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