Advanced Twenty Seventeen <= 1.3.1 - Subscriber+ Site Theme Switch via ats_create_child_theme
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- Where the record stands: published, rejected by its publisher, or superseded by another id.What do these mean? →
- published
- Whether CISA lists it in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog: proof that attackers are using it.What do these mean? →
- Not listed in CISA KEV
- Whether working attack code is public (Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or GitHub). Public code makes attacks easier.What do these mean? →
- None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
- Exploitation: none
- Automatable: no
- Technical impact: partial
Summary
The Advanced Twenty Seventeen WordPress plugin, a add-on for the Twenty Seventeen theme, is affected. An attacker with only a basic logged-in account, such as a subscriber, could change the active theme for the entire website, and could also trick a logged-in administrator into doing so.
Summarized by anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5. Verify details against the original sources.
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The Advanced Twenty Seventeen WordPress plugin through 1.3.1 does not perform any capability or nonce check on the action that creates and activates its bundled child , allowing any authenticated user such as a subscriber to switch the site's active site-wide, and allowing the same action to be triggered against any logged-in user including an administrator via CSRF.
Timeline
- CVE published
- First seen by cve.now
- CISA SSVC assessment
Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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Affected versions
- Unknown Advanced Twenty Seventeen
through 1.3.1