Knowledge Base documentation & wiki plugin – BasePress Docs: A security weakness
Knowledge Base documentation & wiki plugin – BasePress Docs is affected by a security weakness. Exploitation requires at least subscriber-level access. The resulting impact depends on how the affected component exposes the vulnerable operation.
- Component
- Knowledge Base documentation & wiki plugin – BasePress Docs
- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Dec 04, 2024
- Weakness
- CWE-862 — Missing Authorization
This CVE was published Dec 04, 2024 and is one of 1 known issue for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Knowledge Base documentation & wiki plugin – BasePress Docs 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 Knowledge Base documentation & wiki plugin – BasePress Docs plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the basepress_db_posts_update() function in all versions up to, and including, 2.16.3.3. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to update the database.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N