CVE-2024-10578: The Pubnews theme for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized arbitrary plugin installation due to a missing capability check on the…

PriorityP258high8.8CVSS 3.1

AVNACLPRLUINSUCHIHAH

EPSS

1.33%

67.5th percentile

The Pubnews theme for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized arbitrary plugin installation due to a missing capability check on the pubnews_importer_plugin_action_for_notice() function in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.7. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to install arbitrary plugins that can be leveraged to exploit other vulnerabilities.

Affected

1 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
blazethemes	pubnews	<= 1.0.7	—

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