Authenticated database deletion via unchecked re-install action
Published Mar 18, 2024 · Updated Mar 14, 2025
Missing authorization in Mediabeta Enjoy Social Feed 6.2.2 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to reset the plugin database. The Diagnostic tab's re-install database action accepts a subscriber session without verifying administrative capability before resetting stored plugin data. Subscriber-level access and a network path to WordPress administration are required, and successful use deletes the plugin's database content.
Summary
What happened
Missing authorization in Mediabeta Enjoy Social Feed 6.2.2 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to reset the plugin database. The Diagnostic tab's re-install database action accepts a subscriber session without verifying administrative capability before resetting stored plugin data. Subscriber-level access and a network path to WordPress administration are required, and successful use deletes the plugin's database content.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-0780
- Published
- Mar 18, 2024
- Updated
- Mar 14, 2025
- Vendor
- Mediabeta
- Product
- Enjoy Social Feed
- Classifications
- CWE-862, T1485
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Mar 18, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Mar 14, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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Is a vulnerable build present?
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- Affected versionversion=0 <=6.2.2
- Affected versionversion=0 <6.2.2
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Attacks
What attackers are doing with it
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Public exploit references
- WPScan subscriber database-reset proof of conceptproof of concept · demonstrated
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