CVE-2024-8667 Information

Description

The HurryTimer – An Scarcity and Urgency Countdown Timer for WordPress & WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized post publication due to a missing capability check on the activateCampaign() function in all versions up to and including 2.10.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level access and above to publish arbitrary posts like ones they have submitted for review or a site administrator has in draft.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7a8eda88-c45a-4867-b427-d63b586e6de3?source=cve https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hurrytimer/trunk/includes/Admin.php#L568 https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3173213/hurrytimer/trunk/includes/Admin.php?contextall=1

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

LOW

Base Score

NONE

Base Severity

4.3