WordPress Payday Plugin Broken Access Control Vulnerability

A missing authorization vulnerability has been identified in the WordPress Payday plugin, specifically in versions through 3.3.12. This vulnerability allows exploitation of improperly configured access control security levels, potentially leading to unauthorized actions by users with lower privileges.

Impact

Exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an unprivileged user to perform actions that require higher privileges, due to the lack of proper authorization checks.

Remediation

Users of the WordPress Payday plugin are advised to update to version 3.3.14 or later. Patchstack has also issued a virtual patch to mitigate this vulnerability until an official fix can be applied.