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WordPress Plugin: media-slider: CVE-2024-35717: Missing Authorization

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Jun 6, 2024
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
May 5, 2026

Description

The Media Slider – Photo Sleder, Video Slider, Link Slider, Carousal Slideshow plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the ajax_media_slider and _ms_save_settings functions in versions up to, and including, 1.3.9. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to modify the plugin's settings.

Solution

media-slider-plugin-cve-2024-35717
Title
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