Hashthemes Demo Importer: A security weakness
Hashthemes Demo Importer 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
- Hashthemes Demo Importer
- Plugin slug
hashthemes-demo-importer- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Nov 01, 2021
This CVE was published Nov 01, 2021 and is one of 2 known issues for this plugin.
Patch or disable the affected component.
Update Hashthemes Demo Importer to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
Technical description
The Hashthemes Demo Importer Plugin <= 1.1.1 for WordPress contained several AJAX functions which relied on a nonce which was visible to all logged-in users for access control, allowing them to execute a function that truncated nearly all database tables and removed the contents of wp-content/uploads.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
NVD vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:P