Vigil@nce - WordPress Ultimate Product Catalog: privilege escalation
August 2016 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can hijack a role with the Ultimate Product Catalog
module for WordPress, in order to escalate his privileges.
Impacted products: WordPress Plugins not comprehensive.
Severity: 2/4.
Creation date: 20/06/2016.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The Ultimate Product Catalog plugin can be installed on WordPress.
A call to Update_Admin-Databases.php allow attackers to execute
some actions with a given role, but the PHP script does not check
the client privileges.
An attacker can therefore hijack a role with the Ultimate Product
Catalog module for WordPress, in order to escalate his privileges.
ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/WordPress-Ultimate-Product-Catalog-privilege-escalation-19934