WP Accessibility Helper Plugin up to 0.6.2.8 on WordPress Setting authorization

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in WP Accessibility Helper Plugin up to 0.6.2.8 on WordPress. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component Setting Handler. Such manipulation leads to authorization. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2024-5987. The attack can be executed remotely. There is not any exploit available.

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A vulnerability was found in WP Accessibility Helper Plugin up to 0.6.2.8 on WordPress and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component Setting Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a authorization vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-862. The product does not perform an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action. Impacted is integrity. CVE summarizes:

The WP Accessibility Helper (WAH) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'save_contrast_variations' and 'save_empty_contrast_variations' functions in all versions up to, and including, 0.6.2.8. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to edit or delete contrast settings. Please note these issues were patched in 0.6.2.8, though it broke functionality and the vendor has not responded to our follow-ups.

The advisory is available at wordfence.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-5987 since 06/13/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 10/04/2024).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• WordPress Plugin

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• WP Accessibility Helper Plugin

Version

• 0.6.2.0
• 0.6.2.1
• 0.6.2.2
• 0.6.2.3
• 0.6.2.4
• 0.6.2.5
• 0.6.2.6
• 0.6.2.7
• 0.6.2.8

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