Description

The Build App Online plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.23. This is due to the plugin registering the 'build-app-online-update-vendor-product' AJAX action via wp_ajax_nopriv_ without proper authentication checks, capability verification, or nonce validation in the update_vendor_product() function. The function accepts a user-supplied post ID from the request and calls wp_update_post() to modify the post_author field without validating whether the user has permission to modify the specified post. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to modify the post_author of arbitrary posts to 0 (orphaning posts from their legitimate authors), or for authenticated attackers to claim ownership of any post by setting themselves as the author.

Weaknesses 1

References 7

• plugins.trac.wordpress.org https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/build-app-online/tags/1.0.23/admin/class-build-app-online-admin.php#L556
• plugins.trac.wordpress.org https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/build-app-online/tags/1.0.23/admin/class-build-app-online-admin.php#L565
• plugins.trac.wordpress.org https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/build-app-online/tags/1.0.23/includes/class-build-app-online.php#L233
• plugins.trac.wordpress.org https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/build-app-online/trunk/admin/class-build-app-online-admin.php#L556
• plugins.trac.wordpress.org https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/build-app-online/trunk/admin/class-build-app-online-admin.php#L565
• plugins.trac.wordpress.org https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/build-app-online/trunk/includes/class-build-app-online.php#L233
• wordfence.com https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/51564b26-0d7c-4499-9f5a-84f76c5a5e8a?source=cve

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