WordPress Age Gate Plugin Broken Access Control Vulnerability

A broken access control vulnerability has been identified in the WordPress Age Gate plugin, affecting versions through 3.5.4. This vulnerability allows users to access functionalities that are not properly restricted by access control lists (ACLs), potentially leading to unauthorized actions.

Impact

Exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an unauthenticated user to perform actions that require higher privileges, due to the lack of proper authorization checks in the affected plugin version.

Remediation

Users of the WordPress Age Gate plugin should update to version 3.6.0 or later to address this vulnerability. Patchstack users can enable auto-update for vulnerable plugins.