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Highcompress Image Compressor <= 6.1.2 is vulnerable to Broken Access Control + CSRF vulnerability

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Published
2023-08-10

The Highcompress Image Compressor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of datadue to a missing capability check on the 'verify_highcompress_process_auto', 'verify_highcompress_process_images', and 'verify_highcompress_api_key' AJAX functions in versions up to, and including, 5.0.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to compress images and verify or modify the plugin's API key.

CVSS

Score:6.5

Severity:Medium

Version: 6.1.2

The plugin vendor has not patched this vulnerability at the moment.