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Broken Access Control vulnerabilities in WordPress plugins and themes

Broken access control means a feature checks that you are logged in but never checks whether you are allowed. In WordPress it usually appears as an AJAX or REST endpoint registered without a capability check, so any authenticated user — including a subscriber who signed up seconds ago — can call it.

What an attacker can do: reach actions or data that should have been restricted to someone else CWE-862

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