CVE-2023-3636

Published Aug 31, 2023

Last updated a year ago

Overview

Description: The WP Project Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in versions up to, and including, 2.6.4 due to insufficient restriction on the 'save_users_map_name' function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with minimal permissions such as a subscriber, to modify their user role by supplying the 'usernames' parameter.
Source: security@wordfence.com
NVD status: Modified

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type: Primary
Base score: 8.8
Impact score: 5.9
Exploitability score: 2.8
Vector string: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Severity: HIGH

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: NVD-CWE-noinfo

Hype score: Not currently trending

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:wedevs:wp_project_manager:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "E79AF393-3B7F-4766-B73B-E0A0EE6CEE32",
            "versionEndExcluding": "2.6.5"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

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