PT-2023-13459 · WordPress · Blog2Social

Marco Wotschka · Published 2023-10-20 · Updated 2023-10-27 · CVE-2022-3622

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Blog2Social plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 6.9.11

Description The issue is related to authorization bypass due to missing capability checks. This allows authenticated attackers with subscriber-level permissions and above to modify some plugin settings that are intended to be changed by admins only.

Recommendations For Blog2Social plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 6.9.11, update to a version higher than 6.9.11 to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the plugin settings to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Fix

Missing Authorization

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-862

Related Identifiers

CVE-2022-3622

Affected Products

Blog2Social

References · 8

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-3622 · Vendor Advisory
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=2795052%40blog2social&new=2795052%40blog2social&sfp_email=&sfph_mail= · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-3622 · Security Note
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/blog2social/tags/6.9.10/includes/B2S/Settings/Item.php#L116 · Patch
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=2796598%40blog2social&new=2796598%40blog2social&sfp_email=&sfph_mail= · Patch
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f5b8d39c-d307-42c9-a972-29b5521a82a4?source=cve · Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/59802 · Telegram Post
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1715271078166102280 · Twitter Post