Student Result or Employee Database <= 1.7.9 - Missing Authorization
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 1.8.0
- Affected Plugin
- Student Result or Employee Database
- Affected Version
<= 1.7.9- CVSS
- 7.2High
- Weakness type
- CWE-863 · Incorrect Authorization
- CVE
CVE pending
At a glance
This record tracks a high-severity Incorrect Authorization vulnerability in the Student Result or Employee Database WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 1.7.9. It carries a CVSS score of 7.2 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 1.8.0; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed August 2022, reported by WPScanTeam.
Vulnerability Overview
The Student Results or Employee Database plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized REST calls in versions up to, and including 1.7.9. This is due to flawed permission callback in the plugin's REST endpoints. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to utilize these endpoints to add, modify or delete students
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-863: Incorrect Authorization
Reaching this weakness in Student Result or Employee Database <= 1.7.9 takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. Incorrect authorization means a permission check exists but evaluates the wrong thing, so it passes for callers it was meant to stop.
The action runs for users the code intended to exclude, with the same effect as having no check at all. For Student Result or Employee Database the fix is 1.8.0: builds <= 1.7.9 are affected, anything from 1.8.0 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 1.8.0, 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: Student Result or Employee Database 1.8.0 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Login Security
- Alerts
External References
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