Announcement & Notification Banner – Bulletin: A security weakness

Announcement & Notification Banner – Bulletin is affected by a security weakness. Exploitation requires at least subscriber-level access. The resulting impact depends on how the affected component exposes the vulnerable operation.

CVE / CNA score 6.3 CVSS 3.1 · security@wordfence.com

NVD score 4.3 CVSS 3.1 · nvd@nist.gov

Component: Announcement & Notification Banner – Bulletin
Plugin slug: bulletin-announcements
Affected: See vendor advisory
Safe version: See mitigation notes
Published: Jun 09, 2023
Weakness: CWE-862 — Missing Authorization

This CVE was published Jun 09, 2023 and is one of 4 known issues for this plugin.

What to do

Update, patch or deactivate.

Update Announcement & Notification Banner – Bulletin 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.

Source record

Technical description

The Announcement & Notification Banner – Bulletin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access and modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'bulletinwp_update_bulletin_status', 'bulletinwp_update_bulletin', 'bulletinwp_update_settings', 'bulletinwp_update_status', 'bulletinwp_export_bulletins', and 'bulletinwp_import_bulletins' functions functions in versions up to, and including, 3.6.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with subscriber-level access, and above, to modify the plugin's settings, modify bulletins, create new bulletins, and more.

CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

NVD vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

References

Update, patch or deactivate.

Technical description

Primary and upstream sources