Listeo - Directory & Listings With Booking - WordPress Theme < 1.6.11 - Insecure Direct Object Reference
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 1.6.11
- Affected Version
< 1.6.11- CVSS
- 6.5Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-639 · Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
- CVE
CVE-2021-24318
At a glance
CVE-2021-24318 is a medium-severity Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key vulnerability in the Listeo - Directory & Listings With Booking - WordPress Theme WordPress theme, affecting versions < 1.6.11. It carries a CVSS score of 6.5 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity; high integrity impact). The issue is fixed in version 1.6.11; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed May 2021, reported by R3N0.
Vulnerability Overview
The Listeo WordPress theme before 1.6.11 did not ensure that the Post/Page and Booking to delete belong to the user making the request, allowing any authenticated users to delete arbitrary page/post and booking via an IDOR vector.
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. A successful exploit has high impact on integrity.
CWE-639: Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
Reaching this weakness in Listeo - Directory & Listings With Booking - WordPress Theme < 1.6.11 takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. 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 Listeo - Directory & Listings With Booking - WordPress Theme the fix is 1.6.11: builds < 1.6.11 are affected, anything from 1.6.11 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 1.6.11, 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: Listeo - Directory & Listings With Booking - WordPress Theme 1.6.11 closes this, and updating the theme is the step that ends it.
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