Visual Link Preview <= 2.2.2 - Unauthorised AJAX Calls

5.4
Improper Access Control
CVE CVE-2021-24635
CVSS 5.4 (Medium)
Publicly Published August 18, 2021
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher apple502j

Description

The Visual Link Preview WordPress plugin before 2.2.3 does not enforce authorisation on several AJAX actions and has the CSRF nonce displayed for all authenticated users, allowing any authenticated user (such as subscriber) to call them and 1) Get and search through title and content of Draft post, 2) Get title of a password-protected post as well as 3) Upload an image from an URL

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1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug visual-link-preview (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 2.2.3, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • < 2.2.3
Patched Version
  • 2.2.3

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