CVE-2024-10174

WP Project Manager – Task, team, and project management plugin featuring kanban board and gantt charts <= 2.6.13 - Insecure Direct Object Reference to Unauthenticated Authorization Bypass

2024-11-12 00:00
stealthcopter

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 2.6.14
Affected Plugin
Project Manager – AI Powered Project Management, Task Management, Kanban Board & Time Tracker
Affected Version
<= 2.6.13
CVSS
7.3High
Weakness type
CWE-639 · Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
CVE
CVE-2024-10174
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At a glance

CVE-2024-10174 is a high-severity Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key vulnerability in the Project Manager WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 2.6.13. It carries a CVSS score of 7.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 2.6.14; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed November 2024, reported by stealthcopter.

Vulnerability Overview

The WP Project Manager – Task, team, and project management plugin featuring kanban board and gantt charts plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in all versions up to, and including, 2.6.13 via the 'Abstract_Permission' class due to missing validation on the 'user_id' user controlled key. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to spoof their identity to that of an administrator and access all of the plugins REST routes.

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-639: Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key

Project Manager <= 2.6.13 carries this weakness at Abstract_Permission, and reaching it takes no account at all. Authorization bypass through a user-controlled key, often called insecure direct object reference, means the application looks up a record by an identifier from the request without checking that the caller owns it.

Changing a number in the request is enough to read or modify other users' records, which on commerce and membership sites means customer data. For Project Manager the fix is 2.6.14: builds <= 2.6.13 are affected, anything from 2.6.14 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 2.6.14, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

This one needs no account at all, which puts it outside what login hardening can reach; WordSec's login security narrows the account-level paths around it, and the firewall is what inspects the request itself. None of that substitutes for the fix: Project Manager 2.6.14 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Login Security
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-10174https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/dea2d045-d3b4-4b55-8b4f-5baa82a18834https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-10174

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