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Post Grid Gutenberg Blocks and WordPress Blog Plugin – PostX, CVE-2024-10728

CVE, Research URL

CVE-2024-10728

Published on
Nov 16, 2024
Research Description
The Post Grid Gutenberg Blocks and WordPress Blog Plugin – PostX plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized plugin installation/activation due to a missing capability check on the 'install_required_plugin_callback' function in all versions up to, and including, 4.1.16. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to install and activate arbitrary plugins which can be leveraged to achieve remote code execution if another vulnerable plugin is installed and activated.
Affected versions
max 4.1.17.
Status
vulnerable