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CVE-2024-9626: Editorial Assistant by Sovrn <= 1.3.3 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Attachment Upload and Set Post Featured Image

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-10-26 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The Editorial Assistant by Sovrn plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'ajax_zemanta_set_featured_image' function in versions up to, and including, 1.3.3. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to upload attachment files (such as jpg, png, txt, zip), and set the post featured image.

Affected products

• zemanta Editorial Assistant by Sovrn: through 1.3.3

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/zemanta/tags/1.3.3/zemanta.php#L713
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/8775662f-d007-4edf-826e-f755d7b11c25?source=cve

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