Content Egg <= 12.0.0 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Contributor+) Arbitrary Post Meta Modification via 'post_id' Parameter via…
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- 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 Content Egg plugin for WordPress, in all versions up to and including 12.0.0, is affected. An authenticated user with contributor-level access or higher can change product data and related post metadata on posts they do not own, including posts written by administrators.
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The Content Egg plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing per-post capability check on the ajaxUpdateProducts() function in versions up to, and including, 12.0.0. The handler verifies a static nonce ('contentegg_metabox') and the generic 'edit_posts' capability, but trusts the attacker-supplied $_POST['post_id'] verbatim and never calls current_user_can('edit_post', $post_id) — the per-object check that its sibling save_post handler saveMeta() correctly performs. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to modify Content Egg product data (_cegg_data_*) and update-timestamp post meta on arbitrary posts, including those owned by administrators.
Timeline
- CVE published
- First seen by cve.now
- CISA SSVC assessment
Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
- Record last updated
Affected versions
- keywordrush Content Egg – Affiliate Product Importer & Price Comparison
through 12.0.0
References 6
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- browser/content-egg/tags/12.0.0/application/admin/EggMetabox.php#L436
- browser/content-egg/tags/12.0.0/application/admin/EggMetabox.php#L38
- browser/content-egg/tags/12.0.0/application/components/ContentManager.php#L1027
- browser/content-egg/tags/12.0.0/application/components/ContentManager.php#L1075
- changeset?reponame=&old=3773366%40content-egg&new=3773366%40content-egg