RevivePress – Keep your Old Content Evergreen: A security weakness
RevivePress – Keep your Old Content Evergreen 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.
- Component
- RevivePress – Keep your Old Content Evergreen
- Plugin slug
wp-auto-republish- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Mar 20, 2024
- Weakness
- CWE-862 — Missing Authorization
This CVE was published Mar 20, 2024 and is one of 1 known issue for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update RevivePress – Keep your Old Content Evergreen 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 RevivePress – Keep your Old Content Evergreen plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access and modification of data due to a missing capability check on the import_data and copy_data functions in all versions up to, and including, 1.5.6. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access or higher, to overwrite plugin settings and view them.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N