Community by PeepSo – Social Network, Membership, Registration, User Profiles < 1.6.1 - Privilege Escalation

The peepso-core plugin before 1.6.1 for WordPress has PeepSoProfilePreferencesAjax->save() privilege escalation.

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Published

Jun 21, 2016

Last Updated

Jan 22, 2024

Slug

peepso-core

Risk Profile

8.8 CVSS Score

Weakness

Improper Privilege Management

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Researchers

James Golovich

Operational Summary

What the operator needs to know

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Patch Status

Patched release is available

Remediation

Update to version 1.6.1, or a newer patched version

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/01f038d7-2efd-41b2-8f4c-77bab80d8e91?source=api-prod

Detailed Metadata

Software Type	Plugin
Software Slug	peepso-core View on wordpress.org
CVE	CVE-2016-10968
Patched Versions	1.6.1
Affected Versions	*-1.6.0

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