5.4
MEDIUM
CVE-2024-9583
WordPress RSS Aggregator Premium Support Information Disclosure and Privilege Escalation
Description

The RSS Aggregator – RSS Import, News Feeds, Feed to Post, and Autoblogging plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized use of functionality due to a missing capability check on the wprss_ajax_send_premium_support function in all versions up to, and including, 4.23.12. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to send premium support requests with an attacker-controlled subject line and email address to support allowing them to impersonate the site owner. License information may also be leaked.

INFO

Published Date :

Oct. 23, 2024, 7:15 a.m.

Last Modified :

Oct. 25, 2024, 4:28 p.m.

Remotely Exploitable :

Yes !

Impact Score :

2.5

Exploitability Score :

2.8
Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2024-9583 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Rebelcode rss_aggregator
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2024-9583 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • Initial Analysis by [email protected]

    Oct. 25, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CVSS V3.1 NIST AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
    Changed Reference Type https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-rss-aggregator/trunk/includes/admin-help.php#L274 No Types Assigned https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-rss-aggregator/trunk/includes/admin-help.php#L274 Product
    Changed Reference Type https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3168468/wp-rss-aggregator/trunk/includes/admin-help.php No Types Assigned https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3168468/wp-rss-aggregator/trunk/includes/admin-help.php Patch
    Changed Reference Type https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/126c77fa-11c5-431f-8fc9-0375ed6c8a91?source=cve No Types Assigned https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/126c77fa-11c5-431f-8fc9-0375ed6c8a91?source=cve Third Party Advisory
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:rebelcode:rss_aggregator:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* versions up to (excluding) 4.23.13
  • CVE Received by [email protected]

    Oct. 23, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Description The RSS Aggregator – RSS Import, News Feeds, Feed to Post, and Autoblogging plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized use of functionality due to a missing capability check on the wprss_ajax_send_premium_support function in all versions up to, and including, 4.23.12. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to send premium support requests with an attacker-controlled subject line and email address to support allowing them to impersonate the site owner. License information may also be leaked.
    Added Reference Wordfence https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/126c77fa-11c5-431f-8fc9-0375ed6c8a91?source=cve [No types assigned]
    Added Reference Wordfence https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-rss-aggregator/trunk/includes/admin-help.php#L274 [No types assigned]
    Added Reference Wordfence https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3168468/wp-rss-aggregator/trunk/includes/admin-help.php [No types assigned]
    Added CWE Wordfence CWE-862
    Added CVSS V3.1 Wordfence AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
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CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

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Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

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