WP Project Manager – Task, team, and project management plugin featuring kanban board and gantt charts <= 2.6.13 - Insecure Direct Object Reference to Unauthenticated Authorization Bypass

Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
CVE CVE-2024-10174
CVSS High (7.3)
Publicly Published November 12, 2024
Last Updated November 13, 2024
Researcher stealthcopter
Description

The WP Project Manager – Task, team, and project management plugin featuring kanban board and gantt charts plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in all versions up to, and including, 2.6.13 via the 'Abstract_Permission' class due to missing validation on the 'user_id' user controlled key. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to spoof their identity to that of an administrator and access all of the plugins REST routes.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wedevs-project-manager (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.6.13
Patched Version
  • 2.6.14
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