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Shield Security – Smart Bot Blocking & Intrusion Prevention Security, CVE-2023-0993

CVE, Research URL

CVE-2023-0993

Published on
Jun 09, 2023
Research Description
The Shield Security plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Missing Authorization on the 'theme-plugin-file' AJAX action in versions up to, and including, 17.0.17. This allows authenticated attackers to add arbitrary audit log entries indicating that a theme or plugin has been edited, and is also a vector for Cross-Site Scripting via CVE-2023-0992.
Affected versions
max 17.0.18.
Status
vulnerable