CVE-2021-25032 PoC — PublishPress Capabilities < 2.3.1 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Options Update to Blog Compromise

Source

https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2021/CVE-2021-25032.yaml

Associated Vulnerability

Title:PublishPress Capabilities < 2.3.1 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Options Update to Blog Compromise (CVE-2021-25032)
Description:The PublishPress Capabilities WordPress plugin before 2.3.1, PublishPress Capabilities Pro WordPress plugin before 2.3.1 does not have authorisation and CSRF checks when updating the plugin's settings via the init hook, and does not ensure that the options to be updated belong to the plugin. As a result, unauthenticated attackers could update arbitrary blog options, such as the default role and make any new registered user with an administrator role.

Description

The PublishPress Capabilities plugin for WordPress before 2.3.1 does not have proper authorization and CSRF checks when updating settings via the init hook, allowing unauthenticated attackers to update arbitrary blog options, such as setting the default role to administrator.

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