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WordPress WP GDPR Compliance Plugin Privilege Escalation

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Disclosed
Nov 8, 2018
Created
Mar 19, 2019

Description

The Wordpress GDPR Compliance plugin wordpress administration options by overwriting values within the database.

The vulnerability is present in WordPress’s admin-ajax.php, which allows unauthorized
users to trigger handlers and make configuration changes because of a failure to do
capability checks when executing the 'save_setting' internal action.

WARNING: The module sets Wordpress configuration options without reading their current
values and restoring them later.

Authors

Mikey Veenstra (WordFence)
Thomas Labadie

References

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands 'show options' or 'show advanced':


    msf > use auxiliary/admin/http/wp_gdpr_compliance_privesc
    msf auxiliary(wp_gdpr_compliance_privesc) > show actions
        ...actions...
    msf auxiliary(wp_gdpr_compliance_privesc) > set ACTION < action-name >
    msf auxiliary(wp_gdpr_compliance_privesc) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf auxiliary(wp_gdpr_compliance_privesc) > run
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