#wordpress

The ACF Photo Gallery Field WordPress plugin before 1.7.5 does not sanitise and escape the post parameter in the includes/acf_photo_gallery_metabox_edit.php file before outputing back in an attribute, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting issue

The All in One SEO WordPress plugin before 4.1.5.3 is affected by a Privilege Escalation issue, which was discovered during an internal audit by the Jetpack Scan team, and may grant bad actors access to protected REST API endpoints they shouldn’t have access to. This could ultimately enable users with low-privileged accounts, like subscribers, to perform remote code execution on affected sites.

The EventCalendar WordPress plugin before 1.1.51 does not have proper authorisation and CSRF checks in the add_calendar_event AJAX actions, allowing users with a role as low as subscriber to create events

The AnyComment WordPress plugin before 0.3.5 has an API endpoint which passes user input via the redirect parameter to the wp_redirect() function without being validated first, leading to an Open Redirect issue, which according to the vendor, is a feature.

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Alexander Fuchs PHP Everywhere plugin <= 2.0.2 versions.

The Plus Addons for Elementor - Pro WordPress plugin before 5.0.7 does not validate the qvquery parameter of the tp_get_dl_post_info_ajax AJAX action, which could allow unauthenticated users to retrieve sensitive information, such as private and draft posts

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.

WordPress is a free and open-source content management system written in PHP and paired with a MariaDB database. On a multisite, users with Super Admin role can bypass explicit/additional hardening under certain conditions through object injection. This has been patched in WordPress version 5.8.3. Older affected versions are also fixed via security release, that go back till 3.7.37. We strongly recommend that you keep auto-updates enabled. There are no known workarounds for this issue.

The Stars Rating WordPress plugin before 3.5.1 does not validate the submitted rating, allowing submission of long integer, causing a Denial of Service in the comments section, or pending comment dashboard depending if the user sent it as unauthenticated or authenticated.

The Simple JWT Login WordPress plugin before 3.3.0 can be used to create new WordPress user accounts with a randomly generated password. The password is generated using the str_shuffle PHP function that "does not generate cryptographically secure values, and should not be used for cryptographic purposes" according to PHP's documentation.