Awesome Support – WordPress HelpDesk & Support Plugin <= 6.1.7 - Missing Authorization via wpas_get_users()

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2024-0595
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published February 9, 2024
Last Updated August 6, 2024
Researcher Krzysztof Zając
Description

The Awesome Support – WordPress HelpDesk & Support Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to a missing capability check on the wpas_get_users() function hooked via AJAX in all versions up to, and including, 6.1.7. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to retrieve user data such as emails. CVE-2024-35741 is likely a duplicate of this issue.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug awesome-support (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 6.1.7
Patched Version
  • 6.1.8
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