The Email Notifications for Updates plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data that can lead to privilege escalation due to a missing capability check on the awun_import_settings() function in all versions up to, and including, 1.1.6. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to update arbitrary options on the WordPress site. This can be leveraged to update the default role for registration to administrator and enable user registration for attackers to gain administrative user access to a vulnerable site.
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Title | Email Notifications for Updates <= 1.1.6 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Options Update |
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Description | The Email Notifications for Updates plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data that can lead to privilege escalation due to a missing capability check on the awun_import_settings() function in all versions up to, and including, 1.1.6. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to update arbitrary options on the WordPress site. This can be leveraged to update the default role for registration to administrator and enable user registration for attackers to gain administrative user access to a vulnerable site. | |
Weaknesses | CWE-862 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: Wordfence
Published: 2025-04-05T01:44:45.847Z
Updated: 2025-04-07T14:12:05.937Z
Reserved: 2025-03-28T16:51:52.574Z
Link: CVE-2025-2933

Updated: 2025-04-07T13:05:09.420Z

Status : Awaiting Analysis
Published: 2025-04-05T02:15:15.477
Modified: 2025-04-07T14:17:50.220
Link: CVE-2025-2933

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