WordPress Editorialmag Theme <= 1.2.2 is vulnerable to a medium priority Broken Authentication
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CVSS 4.3This vulnerability is moderately dangerous and expected to become exploited.
4.3
Broken Authentication
This can be abused by a malicious actor to perform action which normally should only be able to be executed by higher privileged users. These actions might allow the malicious actor to gain admin access to the website.
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This software was last updated over a year ago and will likely not receive further updates or fixes. Note that deactivating the software does not remove the security threat unless mitigation rule by Patchstack is deployed.
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This theme was last updated over one year ago and will likely not receive further updates or fixes. Note that deactivating the theme does not remove the security threat unless mitigation rule by Patchstack is deployed.
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24 Sep, 2022