Security & Malware scan by CleanTalk, CVE-2020-36698

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2020-36698
Home page URL: Security reports for Security & Malware scan by CleanTalk
Application: Security & Malware scan by CleanTalk
Published on: Oct 20, 2023
Research Description: The Security & Malware scan by CleanTalk plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized user interaction in versions up to, and including, 2.50. This is due to missing capability checks on several AJAX actions and nonce disclosure in the source page of the administrative dashboard. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level permissions and above, to call functions and delete and/or upload files.
Affected versions: max 2.51.
Status: vulnerable