Manage Notification E-mails <= 1.8.5 - Missing Authorization
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 1.8.6
- Affected Plugin
- Manage Notification E-mails
- Affected Version
<= 1.8.5- CVSS
- 5.3Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-285 · Improper Authorization
- CVE
CVE-2023-6496
At a glance
CVE-2023-6496 is a medium-severity Improper Authorization vulnerability in the Manage Notification E-mails WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 1.8.5. It carries a CVSS score of 5.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 1.8.6; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed December 2023, reported by Rafshanzani Suhada.
Vulnerability Overview
The Manage Notification E-mails plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Missing Authorization in all versions up to, and including, 1.8.5 via the card_famne_export_settings function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to obtain plugin settings.
Technical Analysis
The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no privileges on the target site, and no interaction from a victim user.
CWE-285: Improper Authorization
Reaching this weakness in Manage Notification E-mails <= 1.8.5 takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. Improper authorization means a permission check exists but does not cover the case being exercised, so a caller who is allowed to do one thing is allowed to do a neighbouring thing as well.
A lower-privileged account performs an action reserved for a higher one, which on a multi-author or membership site means an ordinary user reaching administrative behaviour. For Manage Notification E-mails the fix is 1.8.6: builds <= 1.8.5 are affected, anything from 1.8.6 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 1.8.6, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
Because it turns on account access, WordSec's login security is the relevant layer: role-based two-factor, captcha and brute-force limits raise the cost of getting the account this needs. None of that substitutes for the fix: Manage Notification E-mails 1.8.6 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
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External References
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