Description

WordPress Plugin Cookie Information-Free GDPR Consent Solution is prone to a privilege escalation vulnerability. Exploiting this issue may allow attackers to bypass the expected capabilities check and perform otherwise restricted actions; other attacks are also possible. WordPress Plugin Cookie Information-Free GDPR Consent Solution version 1.4.2 is vulnerable; prior versions may also be affected.

Remediation

Update to plugin version 1.4.3 or latest

References

https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2018/11/privilege-escalation-flaw-in-wp-gdpr-compliance-plugin-exploited-in-the-wild/

https://blog.sucuri.net/2018/11/erealitatea-net-hack-corrupts-websites-with-wp-gdpr-compliance-plugin-vulnerability.html

https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2018/11/trends-following-vulnerability-in-wp-gdpr-compliance-plugin/

https://medium.com/alertot/serialization-flaw-in-wp-gdpr-compliance-8cfc8feb4ec3

https://medium.com/alertot/new-variant-in-wp-gdpr-compliance-vulnerability-and-fixing-it-with-virtual-patching-4b72d7496c1c

https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/wp-gdpr-compliance/trunk/readme.txt

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Severity

High

Classification

CVE-2018-19207 CWE-264 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Tags

Missing Update Privilege Escalation