Participants Database <= 2.5.5 - Missing Authorization

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2023-48751
CVSS Medium (5.3)
Publicly Published November 27, 2023
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher beluga
Description

The Participants Database plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized manipulation of data due to a missing capability check on several functions hooked via admin-post in all versions up to, and including, 2.5.5. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to add and modify record fields.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug participants-database (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.5.5
Patched Version
  • 2.5.6
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