WordPress BA Book Everything Plugin Broken Access Control Vulnerability

A broken access control vulnerability has been identified in the WordPress BA Book Everything plugin, affecting versions through 1.8.16. This vulnerability arises from missing authorization checks, allowing unprivileged users to perform actions reserved for higher privileges.

Impact

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

Remediation

Users of the BA Book Everything WordPress plugin should update to version 1.8.17 or later to address this vulnerability. Patchstack users can enable auto-update for vulnerable plugins.