CVE-2024-34824

SportsPress – Sports Club & League Manager <= 2.7.20 - Missing Authorization to Notice Dismissal

2024-05-09 00:00
Dhabaleshwar Das

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 2.7.21
Affected Plugin
SportsPress – Sports Club & League Manager
Affected Version
<= 2.7.20
CVSS
3.5Low
Weakness type
CWE-862 · Missing Authorization
CVE
CVE-2024-34824
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At a glance

CVE-2024-34824 is a low-severity Missing Authorization vulnerability in the SportsPress WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 2.7.20. It carries a CVSS score of 3.5 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). The root cause is a missing authorization check on a reachable function. The issue is fixed in version 2.7.21; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed May 2024, reported by Dhabaleshwar Das.

Vulnerability Overview

The SportsPress – Sports Club & League Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the add_notices() function in versions up to, and including, 2.7.20. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to dismiss notices.

Technical Analysis

The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed.

CWE-862: Missing Authorization

SportsPress <= 2.7.20 carries this weakness at add_notices(), and reaching it takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. A missing authorization check means a function is reachable by anyone who can reach the endpoint, because the code never asks whether the caller is allowed to perform the action.

Any user who can reach the endpoint gets to run an action reserved for higher-privileged roles, from reading protected data to changing settings or content. For SportsPress the fix is 2.7.21: builds <= 2.7.20 are affected, anything from 2.7.21 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 2.7.21, 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: SportsPress 2.7.21 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Login Security
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-34824https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/77930416-d79b-42bc-8a84-f7f140679a8ahttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-34824

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