Description

WordPress Plugin Admin Management Xtended is prone to a privilege escalation vulnerability. Exploiting this issue may allow attackers to bypass the expected capabilities check and perform otherwise restricted actions such as change post/media excerpt or post title. WordPress Plugin Admin Management Xtended version 2.4.0 is vulnerable; prior versions may also be affected.

Remediation

Update to plugin version 2.4.0.1 or latest

References

http://security.szurek.pl/admin-management-xtended-240-privilege-escalation.html

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/38966/

https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/134804/WordPress-Admin-Management-Xtended-2.4.0-Privilege-Escalation.html

https://wordpress.org/plugins/admin-management-xtended/changelog/

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phpMyAdmin Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Vulnerability (CVE-2010-3056)

WordPress Plugin Admin Menu Cross-Site Scripting (1.1)

MySQL CVE-2021-35648 Vulnerability (CVE-2021-35648)

Perl Out-of-bounds Write Vulnerability (CVE-2022-48522)

Severity

High

Classification

CWE-264 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Tags

Missing Update Privilege Escalation