PT-2024-15501 · WordPress · The Starbox – The Author Box For Humans

Cifi · Published 2024-02-05 · Updated 2024-02-13 · CVE-2024-0366

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

4.3

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions The Starbox – the Author Box for Humans plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 3.4.7

Description The issue is related to Insecure Direct Object Reference, which allows subscribers to view plugin preferences and potentially other user settings due to missing validation on a user-controlled key in the action function.

Recommendations For versions up to, and including, 3.4.7, update to a version later than 3.4.7 to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the action function until a patch is available.

Fix

Improper Access Control

IDOR

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-284

CWE-639

Related Identifiers

CVE-2024-0366

Affected Products

The Starbox – The Author Box For Humans

References · 7

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-0366 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-0366 · Vendor Advisory
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c47601b4-bf16-4f59-b5f3-584a8eac7c67?source=cve · Note
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3028775/starbox/trunk?contextall=1&old=3000701&old_path=%2Fstarbox%2Ftrunk · Note
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1754620495394140409 · Twitter Post
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/starbox/trunk/core/UserSettings.php · Note
• https://twitter.com/VulmonFeeds/status/1754663299537416698 · Twitter Post