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Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key

CVE-2022-40206

Medium
4.3/10

Summary

Insecure direct object references (IDOR) vulnerability in the wpForo Forum plugin <= 2.0.5 on WordPress allows attackers with subscriber or higher user roles to mark any forum post as private/public.

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  • NETWORK
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  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
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CWE-639 - Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key

The system's authorization functionality does not prevent one user from gaining access to another user's data or record by modifying the key value identifying the data.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published