CVE-2024-8548

Oct. 1, 2024, 8:15 a.m.

CVSS Score

8.1 / 10

Products impacted

KB Support - WordPress Help Desk and Knowledge Base plugin

  • up to 1.6.6

Source

security@wordfence.com

Date

Published: Oct. 1, 2024, 8:15 a.m.

Last Modified: Oct. 1, 2024, 8:15 a.m.

Status : Received

CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.

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Description

The KB Support – WordPress Help Desk and Knowledge Base plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification and loss of data due to a missing capability check on several functions in all versions up to, and including, 1.6.6. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to perform multiple administrative actions, such as replying to arbitrary tickets, updating the status of any post, deleting any post, adding notes to tickets, flagging or unflagging tickets, and adding or removing ticket participants.

Weaknesses

CWE-862
Missing Authorization

The product does not perform an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action.

CWE ID: 862

CVSS Data

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score
8.1
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
5.2
Base Severity
HIGH
CVSS Vector String

The CVSS vector string provides an in-depth view of the vulnerability metrics.

View Vector String

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

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