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Post Pay Counter < 2.731 — Arbitrary Settings Change

CVE-2017-18584Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: <2.731Update to 2.731 or newer

All remediation steps
Watch plugin
Severity
High7.5
CVSS
7.5
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:N Privileges required
None
UI:N User interaction
None
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:N Confidentiality
None
I:H Integrity
High
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-287 Improper Authentication
Required access
No account needed
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
On this page8

Am I affected?

Post Pay Counter post-pay-counter

  1. Affected< 2.731
  2. Patched in2.731

Update to 2.731 or newer.

You are affected if you run < 2.731. Version 2.731 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Post Pay Counter.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
  • No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.

What to do

  1. Update to version 2.731, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch Post Pay Counter to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence.

The Post Pay Counter plugin before 2.731 for WordPress has no permissions check for an update-settings action.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

More in Post Pay Counter

All 3
More vulnerabilities in Post Pay Counter
SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
Medium6.1Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
≤2.789Update to 2.790
CVE-2023-47673
Critical9.8PHP Object Injection
<2.731Update to 2.731
CVE-2017-18583

Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity high, CVSS 7.5

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
VulnCrest content
Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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