PublishPress Capabilities < 2.3.1 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Options Update to Blog Compromise

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

• publishpress capabilitiesbefore 2.3.1

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (WPScan). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

• Unknown PublishPress Capabilities – User Role Access, Editor Permissions, Admin Menus

  • 2.0 and later · before 2.0*affected
  • 2.3.1 and later · before 2.3.1affected

• Unknown PublishPress Capabilities Pro

  • 2.0 and later · before 2.0*affected
  • 2.3.1 and later · before 2.3.1affected

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

• CVE-2022-3366PublishPress Capabilities < 2.5.2 - Admin+ PHP Objection Injection
  28Monitor

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Root cause

State-changing requests rely on the session cookie the browser sends automatically; nothing verifies that the request came from the user’s own page.

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

1app.use(session({ cookie: { httpOnly: true } }));2app.post("/account/address", updateAddress);

1app.use(session({ cookie: { httpOnly: true, sameSite: "lax" } }));2app.post("/account/address", csrfProtection, updateAddress);

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.