WordPress Internal Linking of Related Contents Plugin Broken Access Control Vulnerability

A missing authorization vulnerability has been identified in the WordPress Internal Linking of Related Contents plugin, affecting versions through 1.1.8. 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 Internal Linking of Related Contents plugin should update to version 1.1.9 or later. Patchstack users can enable auto-update for vulnerable plugins.