PT-2025-1915 · Bitly · Bitly'S Plugin For Wordpress

Lucio Sá · Published 2025-01-09 · Updated 2025-01-09 · CVE-2024-12616

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 Bitly's WordPress Plugin versions up to, and including, 2.7.3

Description The issue is related to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on several AJAX actions. This allows authenticated attackers with Subscriber-level access and above to update and retrieve plugin settings.

Recommendations For versions up to, and including, 2.7.3, update to a version higher than 2.7.3 to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the AJAX actions until a patch is available.

Fix

Missing Authorization

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-862

Related Identifiers

CVE-2024-12616

Affected Products

Bitly'S Plugin For Wordpress

References · 7

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-12616 · Security Note
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1877315753709384046 · Twitter Post
• https://twitter.com/VulmonFeeds/status/1877443540369752376 · Twitter Post
• https://t.me/cvedetector/14838 · Telegram Post
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-bitly/trunk/includes/class-wp-bitly-auth.php#L115 · Note
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b1312c34-45c6-41e5-b6fc-a45ac2c8a0ca?source=cve · Note
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3272740 · Note