30 Nov 2023

Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Super Progressive Web Apps

The changelog for the latest version of the WordPress plugin Super Progressive Web Apps suggests a vulnerability might have been fixed, as one of the entries says in part “Fixed Broken Access Control vulnerability”. Looking at the changes made in that version, we found that a minor issue was addressed. Previously, anyone could access functionality to sign up for a newsletter or hide a form for the newsletter.

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This post provides insights on a vulnerability in a WordPress plugin not discovered by us, where the discoverer hadn't provided the details needed for us to confirm the vulnerability while we were adding it to the data set for our service, so the rest of its contents are limited to subscribers of our service.

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