Advanced Cron Manager: A security weakness
Advanced Cron Manager is affected by a security weakness. Exposure depends on how the affected operation is made reachable by the site. The resulting impact depends on how the affected component exposes the vulnerable operation.
- Component
- Advanced Cron Manager
- Plugin slug
advanced-cron-manager- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Feb 07, 2022
- Weakness
- CWE-862 — Missing Authorization
This CVE was published Feb 07, 2022 and is one of 4 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Advanced Cron Manager to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
No confirmed safe version is listed. Consider a vendor-supported patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality while you assess the risk.
Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.
Technical description
The Advanced Cron Manager WordPress plugin before 2.4.2 and Advanced Cron Manager Pro WordPress plugin before 2.5.3 do not have authorisation checks in some of their AJAX actions, allowing any authenticated users, such as subscriber to call them and add or remove events as well as schedules for example
NVD vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N