CVE-2024-12881 Missing authorization in PlugVersions – Easily roll back to previous versions of your plugins.
Authenticated subscribers can create arbitrary files due to missing capability checks in the PlugVersions WordPress plugin.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-12881?
CVE-2024-12881 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in giuse PlugVersions – Easily roll back to previous versions of your plugins., published on 24 Dec 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The PlugVersions – Easily rollback to previous versions of your plugins plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary file uploads due to a missing capability check on the eos_plugin_reviews_restore_version() function in all versions up to, and including, 0.0.7. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to create arbitrary files leveraging files included locally.
Weakness: CWE-862
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-12881?
How do I fix CVE-2024-12881?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-12881 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.
Is CVE-2024-12881 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-12881 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-j876-jhxx-8x3r.