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HurryTimer – An Scarcity and Urgency Countdown Timer for WordPress & WooCommerce, CVE-2024-8667

CVE, Research URL

CVE-2024-8667

Published on
Oct 24, 2024
Research Description
The HurryTimer – An Scarcity and Urgency Countdown Timer for WordPress & WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized post publication due to a missing capability check on the activateCampaign() function in all versions up to, and including, 2.10.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to publish arbitrary posts like ones they have submitted for review, or a site administrator has in draft.
Affected versions
Min -, max 2.11.0.
Status
vulnerable