CVE-2024-10728 Information

Description

The Post Grid Gutenberg Blocks and WordPress Blog Plugin – PostX plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized plugin installation/activation due to a missing capability check on the ‘install_required_plugin_callback’ function in all versions up to and including 4.1.16. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with Subscriber-level access and above to install and activate arbitrary plugins which can be leveraged to achieve remote code execution if another vulnerable plugin is installed and activated.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/076f36fb-c2fb-43e0-a027-1351d3995489?source=cve https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ultimate-post/tags/4.1.16/classes/Importer.php#L94 https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ultimate-post/tags/4.1.16/classes/Initialization.php#L330 https://wordpress.org/plugins/ultimate-post/ https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3188636/ultimate-post/trunk/classes/Importer.php

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

8.8