Staff / Employee Business Directory for Active Directory <= 1.2.3 - Authenticated (Admin+) LDAP Passback

Missing Authentication for Critical Function
CVE CVE-2023-4505
CVSS Low (2.2)
Publicly Published September 25, 2023
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Pedro José Navas Pérez
Description

The Staff / Employee Business Directory for Active Directory plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to LDAP Passback in versions up to, and including, 1.2.3. This is due to insufficient validation when changing the LDAP server. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrative access and above, to change the LDAP server and retrieve the credentials for the original LDAP server.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug ldap-ad-staff-employee-directory-search (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.2.3
Patched Version
  • 1.3
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