What is CVE-2021-24635?

CVE-2021-24635 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Bootstrapped Visual Link Preview, classified under Improper Access Control. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2021-09-20.

How severe is CVE-2021-24635?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.

Is CVE-2021-24635 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Auth bypass in Bootstrapped Visual Link Preview

CVE-2021-24635

The Visual Link Preview WordPress plugin before 2.2.3 does not enforce authorisation on several AJAX actions and has the CSRF nonce displayed for all authenticated users, allowing any authenticated user (such as subscriber) to call them and 1) Get and search through title and content of Draft post, 2) Get title of a password-protected post as well as 3) Upload an image from an URL

EPSS: 0.006 (46.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Bootstrapped Visual_link_preview
Unknown Visual Link Preview — versions 2.2.3

Weakness classification (CWE)

Public proof-of-concept exploits

20142995/nuclei-templates

References

contact@wpscan.com (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2021-24635?: CVE-2021-24635 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Bootstrapped Visual Link Preview, classified under Improper Access Control. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2021-09-20.
How severe is CVE-2021-24635?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.
Is CVE-2021-24635 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.