WordPress Video Robot - The Ultimate Video Importer: Privilege escalation or authentication bypass
WordPress Video Robot - The Ultimate Video Importer is affected by privilege escalation or authentication bypass. Exploitation requires at least subscriber-level access. A successful request can grant permissions or access that the caller should not possess.
- Component
- WordPress Video Robot - The Ultimate Video Importer
- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Nov 16, 2024
This CVE was published Nov 16, 2024 and is one of 1 known issue for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update WordPress Video Robot - The Ultimate Video Importer 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 WordPress Video Robot - The Ultimate Video Importer plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation due to insufficient validation on user meta that can be updated in the wpvr_rate_request_result() function in all versions up to, and including, 1.20.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to update their user meta on a WordPress site. This can be leveraged to update their capabilities to that of an administrator.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H