CVE-2024-12825

Published Feb 1, 2025

Last updated 7 days ago

CVSS medium 5.4

Overview

Description: The Custom Related Posts plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access & modification of data due to a missing capability check on three AJAX actions in all versions up to, and including, 1.7.3. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to search posts and link/unlink relations.
Source: security@wordfence.com
NVD status: Analyzed

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type: Primary
Base score: 5.4
Impact score: 2.5
Exploitability score: 2.8
Vector string: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Severity: MEDIUM

Weaknesses

security@wordfence.com: CWE-862

Hype score: Not currently trending

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:brechtvds:custom_related_posts:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "CB73EDB3-54FD-4518-B0DA-94565EA61162",
            "versionEndExcluding": "1.7.4"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

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