WPQA - Builder forms Addon For WordPress < 5.7 - Information Disclosure

Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
CVE CVE-2022-2198
CVSS Medium (6.5)
Publicly Published August 1, 2022
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Bikram Kharal
Description

The WPQA Builder WordPress plugin before 5.7 which is a companion plugin to the Hilmer and Discy , does not check authorization before displaying private messages, allowing any logged in user to read other users private message using the message id, which can easily be brute forced.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wpqa (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 5.7
Patched Version
  • 5.7
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