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ThemeGrill Demo Importer, CVE-2020-36837

CVE, Research URL

CVE-2020-36837

Published on
Oct 16, 2024
Research Description
The ThemeGrill Demo Importer plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authentication bypass due to a missing capability check on the reset_wizard_actions function in versions 1.3.4 through 1.6.1. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers to reset the WordPress database. After which, if there is a user named 'admin', the attacker will become automatically logged in as an administrator.
Affected versions
max 1.6.2.
Status
vulnerable