Student Result or Employee Database <= 1.6.3 - Authentication Bypass

Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel
CVE CVE-2017-14766
CVSS Critical (9.8)
Publicly Published September 21, 2017
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Benjamin Lim
Description

The Simple Student Result plugin before 1.6.4 for WordPress has an Authentication Bypass vulnerability because the fn_ssr_add_st_submit() function and fn_ssr_del_st_submit() function in functions.php only require knowing the student id number.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug simple-student-result (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.6.3
Patched Version
  • 1.6.4
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