CVE-2023-5426

Summary

The Post Meta Data Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the pmdm_wp_delete_user_meta, pmdm_wp_delete_term_meta, and pmdm_wp_ajax_delete_meta functions in versions up to, and including, 1.2.0. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete user, term, and post meta belonging to arbitrary users.

Affected Software

Weaknesses

• CWE-862: CWE-862 Missing Authorization

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d6a7f882-4582-4b08-9597-329d140ad782?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2981559/post-meta-data-manager

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

• SSVC:
• Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: yes
  • Technical Impact: partial

References

• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d6a7f882-4582-4b08-9597-329d140ad782?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2981559/post-meta-data-manager

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