Missing Authorization in WP Fastest Cache Varnish Cache Actions
The Varnish integration in WP Fastest Cache exposed AJAX actions that save, start, pause and remove the Varnish configuration, and an action that purges the Varnish cache, while verifying only a nonce and never the caller’s capabilities. Any authenticated user able to obtain the nonce could change the site’s Varnish server settings or force a full cache purge. The fix requires the manage_options capability in all five handlers and rejects requests where the nonce parameter is absent.
This vulnerability affects the following application versions:
- WP Fastest Cache 0.9.0.3
- WP Fastest Cache 0.9.0.4
- WP Fastest Cache 0.9.0.5
- WP Fastest Cache 0.9.0.6
- WP Fastest Cache 0.9.0.7
- WP Fastest Cache 0.9.0.8
- WP Fastest Cache 0.9.0.9
- WP Fastest Cache 0.9.1.0
- WP Fastest Cache 0.9.1.1
- WP Fastest Cache 0.9.1.2
- WP Fastest Cache 0.9.1.3
- WP Fastest Cache 0.9.1.4
- WP Fastest Cache 0.9.1.5
- WP Fastest Cache 0.9.1.6
- WP Fastest Cache 0.9.1.7
- WP Fastest Cache 0.9.1.8
- WP Fastest Cache 0.9.1.9
- WP Fastest Cache 0.9.2
- WP Fastest Cache 0.9.3
- WP Fastest Cache 0.9.4
- WP Fastest Cache 0.9.5
- WP Fastest Cache 0.9.6
- WP Fastest Cache 0.9.7
- WP Fastest Cache 0.9.8
- WP Fastest Cache 0.9.9
- WP Fastest Cache 1.0.0
- WP Fastest Cache 1.0.1
- WP Fastest Cache 1.0.2
- WP Fastest Cache 1.0.3
- WP Fastest Cache 1.0.4
- WP Fastest Cache 1.0.5
- WP Fastest Cache 1.0.6
- WP Fastest Cache 1.0.7
- WP Fastest Cache 1.0.8
- WP Fastest Cache 1.0.9
- WP Fastest Cache 1.1.0
- WP Fastest Cache 1.1.1
- WP Fastest Cache 1.1.2
- WP Fastest Cache 1.1.3
- WP Fastest Cache 1.1.4
- WP Fastest Cache 1.1.5
- WP Fastest Cache 1.1.6
- WP Fastest Cache 1.1.7
- WP Fastest Cache 1.1.8
- WP Fastest Cache 1.1.9
- WP Fastest Cache 1.2.0
- WP Fastest Cache 1.2.1
- WP Fastest Cache 1.2.2
- WP Fastest Cache 1.2.3
- WP Fastest Cache 1.2.4
- WP Fastest Cache 1.2.5
- WP Fastest Cache 1.2.6
- WP Fastest Cache 1.2.7
- WP Fastest Cache 1.2.8
- WP Fastest Cache 1.2.9
- WP Fastest Cache 1.3.0
- WP Fastest Cache 1.3.1
- WP Fastest Cache 1.3.2
- WP Fastest Cache 1.3.3
- WP Fastest Cache 1.3.4
- WP Fastest Cache 1.3.5
- WP Fastest Cache 1.3.6
- WP Fastest Cache 1.3.7
- WP Fastest Cache 1.3.8
- WP Fastest Cache 1.3.9
- WP Fastest Cache 1.4.0
- WP Fastest Cache 1.4.1
- WP Fastest Cache 1.4.2
- WP Fastest Cache 1.4.3
- WP Fastest Cache 1.4.4
- WP Fastest Cache 1.4.5
- WP Fastest Cache 1.4.6
- WP Fastest Cache 1.4.7
- WP Fastest Cache 1.4.8
- WP Fastest Cache 1.4.9
- WP Fastest Cache 1.5.0
- WP Fastest Cache 1.5.1