Easy Student Results: A security weakness
Easy Student Results is affected by a security weakness. The vulnerable path is reachable without authentication. The resulting impact depends on how the affected component exposes the vulnerable operation.
- Component
- Easy Student Results
- Plugin slug
easy-student-results- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Aug 15, 2022
- Weakness
- CWE-862 — Missing Authorization
This CVE was published Aug 15, 2022 and is one of 2 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Easy Student Results to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
No confirmed safe version is listed. Consider a vendor-supported patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality while you assess the risk.
Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.
Technical description
The Easy Student Results WordPress plugin through 2.2.8 lacks authorisation in its REST API, allowing unauthenticated users to retrieve information related to the courses, exams, departments as well as student's grades and PII such as email address, physical address, phone number etc
NVD vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N