Visual Portfolio, Photo Gallery & Post Grid Plugin REST Endpoint authorization

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Visual Portfolio, Photo Gallery & Post Grid Plugin up to 2.17.x on WordPress. It has been classified as critical. Affected is an unknown function of the component REST Endpoint. This manipulation causes authorization. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2022-2543. No exploit exists. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Visual Portfolio, Photo Gallery & Post Grid Plugin up to 2.17.x on WordPress (Photo Gallery Software) and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code block of the component REST Endpoint. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a authorization vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-862. The product does not perform an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

The Visual Portfolio, Photo Gallery & Post Grid WordPress plugin before 2.18.0 does not have proper authorisation checks in some of its REST endpoints, allowing unauthenticated users to call them and inject arbitrary CSS in arbitrary saved layouts

The weakness was disclosed 09/06/2022. The advisory is shared at wpscan.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2022-2543 since 07/26/2022. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

Upgrading to version 2.18.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 6.2
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 6.0

VulDB Base Score: 6.3
VulDB Temp Score: 6.0
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NVD Base Score: 6.1
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Authorization
CWE: CWE-862 / CWE-863 / CWE-285
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

Availability: 🔍
Status: Not defined

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Visual Portfolio, Photo Gallery & Post Grid Plugin 2.18.0

Timelineinfo

07/26/2022 🔍
09/06/2022 +42 days 🔍
09/06/2022 +0 days 🔍
10/13/2022 +37 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: wpscan.com
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2022-2543 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2022-2543
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-207877

Entryinfo

Created: 09/06/2022 09:37
Updated: 10/13/2022 09:29
Changes: 09/06/2022 09:37 (41), 10/13/2022 09:29 (10)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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