Discy - Social Questions and Answers WordPress Theme <= 4.9 - Missing Authorization
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 5.0
- Affected Theme
- Discy - Social Questions and Answers WordPress Theme
- Affected Version
<= 4.9- CVSS
- 6.3Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-862 · Missing Authorization
- CVE
CVE-2022-1323
At a glance
CVE-2022-1323 is a medium-severity Missing Authorization vulnerability in the Discy - Social Questions and Answers WordPress Theme WordPress theme, affecting versions <= 4.9. It carries a CVSS score of 6.3 (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 5.0; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed July 2022, reported by Veshraj Ghimire.
Vulnerability Overview
The "Discy - Social Questions and Answers WordPress Theme" theme for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass due to a missing capability check on the discy_update_options AJAX action in versions up to, and including, 4.9. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with minimal permissions, such as subscribers, to modify the plugin's 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 interaction from a victim user.
CWE-862: Missing Authorization
Reaching this weakness in Discy - Social Questions and Answers WordPress Theme <= 4.9 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 Discy - Social Questions and Answers WordPress Theme the fix is 5.0: builds <= 4.9 are affected, anything from 5.0 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 5.0, 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: Discy - Social Questions and Answers WordPress Theme 5.0 closes this, and updating the theme is the step that ends it.
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