CVE-2023-5426 (GCVE-0-2023-5426)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-10-28 11:06 – Updated: 2025-02-05 18:56
VLAI?
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.
Severity ?
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
gandhihitesh9 Post Meta Data Manager Affected: * , ≤ 1.2.0 (semver)
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Credits
Francesco Carlucci
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