CVE-2023-5417 (GCVE-0-2023-5417)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-11-22 15:33
Modified
2026-04-08 16:36
CWE
Summary
The Funnelforms Free plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the fnsf_update_category function in versions up to, and including, 3.4. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level permissions and above, to modify the Funnelforms category for a given post ID.
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