Description

WordPress Plugin PublishPress Future: Automatically Unpublish WordPress Posts is prone to a security bypass vulnerability. Exploiting this issue may allow attackers to perform otherwise restricted actions and subsequently schedule deletion of arbitrary posts. WordPress Plugin PublishPress Future: Automatically Unpublish WordPress Posts version 2.5.1 is vulnerable; prior versions may also be affected.

Remediation

Update to plugin version 2.6.0 or latest

References

https://sploitus.com/exploit?id=WPEX-ID:DE51B970-AB13-41A6-A479-A92CD0E70B71

https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/post-expirator/trunk/readme.txt

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Severity

High

Classification

CVE-2021-24783 CWE-264 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Tags

Missing Update Authentication Bypass