CVE-2024-10578 Information

Description

The Pubnews theme for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized arbitrary plugin installation due to a missing capability check on the pubnews_importer_plugin_action_for_notice() function in all versions up to and including 1.0.7. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with Subscriber-level access and above to install arbitrary plugins that can be leveraged to exploit other vulnerabilities.

Reference

https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/browser/pubnews/1.0.7/inc/admin/admin.php#L1017 https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/250743/pubnews/1.0.8?contextall=1&old=245552&old_path=%2Fpubnews%2F1.0.7 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7eaa0117-5320-431f-b3d2-05a867901528?source=cve