Description

WordPress Plugin Easy Updates Manager is prone to a privilege escalation vulnerability. Exploiting this issue may allow attackers to bypass the expected capabilities check and perform otherwise restricted actions; other attacks are also possible. WordPress Plugin Easy Updates Manager version 8.0.4 is vulnerable; prior versions may also be affected.

Remediation

Update to plugin version 8.0.5 or latest

References

https://www.pluginvulnerabilities.com/2019/03/28/privilege-escalation-vulnerability-in-easy-updates-manager/

https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/stops-core-theme-and-plugin-updates/trunk/readme.txt

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Severity

High

Classification

CVE-2019-15650 CWE-264 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Tags

Missing Update Privilege Escalation