vulnerability

WordPress Plugin: wp-simple-firewall: CVE-2023-0993: Missing Authorization

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Apr 25, 2023
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
May 15, 2025

Description

The Shield Security plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Missing Authorization on the 'theme-plugin-file' AJAX action in versions up to, and including, 17.0.17. This allows authenticated attackers to add arbitrary audit log entries indicating that a theme or plugin has been edited, and is also a vector for Cross-Site Scripting via CVE-2023-0992.

Solution

wp-simple-firewall-plugin-cve-2023-0993
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