Awesome Support: A security weakness
Awesome Support 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
- Awesome Support
- Plugin slug
awesome-support- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Aug 20, 2019
This CVE was published Aug 20, 2019 and is one of 27 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Awesome Support 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 awesome-support plugin before 3.1.7 for WordPress has a security issue in which shortcodes are allowed in replies.
NVD vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N