CVE-2024-50455 WordPress SEOPress plugin <= 8.1.1 - Broken Access Control vulnerability

What is CVE-2024-50455?

CVE-2024-50455 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Benjamin Denis SEOPress, published on 29 Oct 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Missing Authorization vulnerability in Benjamin Denis SEOPress wp-seopress allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels.This issue affects SEOPress: from n/a through <= 8.1.1.

Weakness: CWE-862

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-50455?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Seopress Seopress.

How do I fix CVE-2024-50455?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-50455 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-2024-50455 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-50455 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Benjamin Denis SEOPress

• CVE-2024-5488 SEOPress < 7.9 - Unauthenticated Object Injection Critical 9.8
• CVE-2023-1669 SEOPress < 6.5.0.3 - Admin+ PHP Object Injection High 7.2
• CVE-2024-1168 SEOPress – On-site SEO <= 7.9 - Authenticated(Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Social Image URL Medium 6.4
• CVE-2024-1134 SEOPress – On-site SEO <= 7.5.2.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting Medium 6.4
• CVE-2024-2165 SEOPress – On-site SEO <= 7.5.2.1 - Authenticated (Author+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting Medium 6.4

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-g49h-wxrw-qwfh.