System Dashboard <= 2.8.7 - Missing Authorization to Information Disclosure (sd_constants)

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2023-5710
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published December 6, 2023
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Dmitrii Ignatyev
Description

The System Dashboard plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data due to a missing capability check on the sd_constants() function hooked via an AJAX action in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.7. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to retrieve sensitive information such as database credentials.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug system-dashboard (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.8.7
Patched Version
  • 2.8.8
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