W3speedster Plugin up to 7.26 on WordPress eval injection

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in W3speedster Plugin up to 7.26 on WordPress. It has been declared as critical. The impacted element is an unknown function. The manipulation results in privilege escalation. This vulnerability was named CVE-2024-8512. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in W3speedster Plugin up to 7.26 on WordPress. It has been classified as critical. Affected is some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privilege escalation vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-95. The product receives input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes code syntax before using the input in a dynamic evaluation call (e.g. "eval"). This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

The W3SPEEDSTER plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Remote Code Execution in all versions up to, and including, 7.26 via the 'script' parameter of the hookBeforeStartOptimization() function. This is due to the plugin passing user supplied input to eval(). This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Administrator-level access and above, to execute code on the server.

The advisory is available at wordfence.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2024-8512 since 09/06/2024. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. Additional levels of successful authentication are necessary for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

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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Class: Eval injection
CWE: CWE-95 / CWE-94 / CWE-74
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Remote: Yes

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09/06/2024 🔍
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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: wordfence.com
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2024-8512 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2024-8512
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-282498

Entryinfo

Created: 10/30/2024 07:23
Updated: 10/30/2024 13:56
Changes: 10/30/2024 07:23 (50), 10/30/2024 13:56 (14)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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