The The Welcomizer plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Remote Code Execution in all versions up to and including 2.8.1. This is due to missing authorization checks on the twiz_ajax_callback AJAX ac…
High CVSS 8.8
Summary
The The Welcomizer plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Remote Code Execution in all versions up to and including 2.8.1. This is due to missing authorization checks on the twiz_ajax_callback AJAX action's 'savesection' handler combined with the use of eval() to execute user-supplied 'custom logic' code on the frontend. The AJAX handler at twiz-ajax.php verifies a nonce but performs no current_user_can() capability check for the ACTION_SAVE_SECTION case. Furthermore, the nonce is exposed to any…
In-depth triage
No in-depth report has been generated yet (DR-003 v2 AI pipeline is under construction).
Sources
- NVD DATABASE
Original Links
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/the-welcomizer/tags/2.8.1/includes/twiz.menu.class.php#L265
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/the-welcomizer/tags/2.8.1/includes/twiz.menu.class.php#L507
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/the-welcomizer/tags/2.8.1/includes/twiz.menu.class.php#L580
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/the-welcomizer/tags/2.8.1/includes/twiz.output.class.php#L828
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/the-welcomizer/tags/2.8.1/twiz-ajax.php#L148
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/the-welcomizer/trunk/includes/twiz.menu.class.php#L265
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/the-welcomizer/trunk/includes/twiz.menu.class.php#L507
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/the-welcomizer/trunk/includes/twiz.menu.class.php#L580
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/the-welcomizer/trunk/includes/twiz.output.class.php#L828
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/the-welcomizer/trunk/twiz-ajax.php#L148
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/the-welcomizer/
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/73fb7102-66ff-4309-a98f-bbbfd3ddbba6?source=cve
Timeline
- nvd_ingest NVD