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Yellow Pencil Visual Theme Customizer Plugin for WordPress < 7.2.1 Privilege Escalation

high Web App Scanning Plugin ID 98547

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Synopsis

Yellow Pencil Visual Theme Customizer Plugin for WordPress < 7.2.1 Privilege Escalation

Description

The WordPress Yellow Pencil Visual Theme Customizer Plugin installed on the remote host is affected by a privilege escalation vulnerability due to 'yp_remote_get_first' function. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can leverage this issue to perform WordPress actions that were restricted to administrators.

Note that the scanner has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Upgrade to Yellow Pencil Visual Theme Customizer Plugin for WordPress 7.2.1 or latest.

See Also

https://wordpress.org/plugins/yellow-pencil-visual-theme-customizer/

https://www.pluginvulnerabilities.com/2019/04/09/recently-closed-visual-css-style-editor-wordpress-plugin-contains-privilege-escalation-vulnerability-that-leads-to-option-update-vulnerability/

https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2019/04/zero-day-vulnerability-in-yellow-pencil-visual-theme-customizer-exploited-in-the-wild/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 98547

Type: remote

Published: 4/25/2019

Updated: 3/14/2023

Scan Template: basic, full, pci, scan

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-11886

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-11886

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:2.3:a:yellowpencil:visual_css_style_editor:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/13/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/13/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-11886