CVE-2023-0293 (GCVE-0-2023-0293)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-01-13 19:44 – Updated: 2025-01-13 17:12
VLAI?
Summary
The Mediamatic – Media Library Folders plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass due to a missing capability check on its AJAX actions in versions up to, and including, 2.8.1. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level permissions and above, to change image categories, which it uses to arrange them in folder views.
Severity ?
4.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
plugincraft Mediamatic – Media Library Folders Affected: * , ≤ 2.8.1 (semver)
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Credits
Marco Wotschka
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