Advanced Post Block – Display Posts, Pages, or Custom Posts on Your Page: A security weakness
Advanced Post Block – Display Posts, Pages, or Custom Posts on Your Page is affected by a security weakness. The vulnerable path is reachable without authentication. The resulting impact depends on how the affected component exposes the vulnerable operation.
- Component
- Advanced Post Block – Display Posts, Pages, or Custom Posts on Your Page
- Plugin slug
advanced-post-block- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- May 02, 2024
- Weakness
- CWE-862 — Missing Authorization
This CVE was published May 02, 2024 and is one of 1 known issue for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Advanced Post Block – Display Posts, Pages, or Custom Posts on Your Page 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 Post Block – Display Posts, Pages, or Custom Posts on Your Page plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data due to a missing capability check on the apbPosts() function hooked via an AJAX action in all versions up to, and including, 1.13.4. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to retrieve all post data, including those that may be password protected.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N