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Media Hygiene: Remove or Delete Unused Images and More!, CVE-2024-5855

CVE, Research URL

CVE-2024-5855

Published on
Jul 09, 2024
Research Description
The Media Hygiene: Remove or Delete Unused Images and More! plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized loss of data due to a missing capability check on the bulk_action_delete and delete_single_image_call AJAX actions in all versions up to, and including, 3.0.1. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to delete arbitrary attachments. A nonce check was added in version 3.0.1, however, it wasn't until version 3.0.2 that a capability check was added.
Affected versions
Min -, max 3.0.2.
Status
vulnerable