WordPress Admin and Site Enhancements (ASE) Plugin Broken Access Control Vulnerability

A missing authorization vulnerability has been identified in the WordPress Admin and Site Enhancements (ASE) Plugin, affecting versions through 7.6.2. This vulnerability allows exploitation of improperly configured access control security levels, potentially enabling unprivileged users to perform actions reserved for higher privileges.

Impact

Exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to broken access control, allowing users to execute actions with elevated privileges that they should not have access to.

Remediation

Users of the WordPress Admin and Site Enhancements (ASE) Plugin should update to version 7.6.3 or later to address this vulnerability. Patchstack users can enable auto-update for vulnerable plugins.