WP Project Manager – Task, team, and project management plugin featuring kanban board and gantt charts: A security weakness
WP Project Manager – Task, team, and project management plugin featuring kanban board and gantt charts 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
- WP Project Manager – Task, team, and project management plugin featuring kanban board and gantt charts
- Plugin slug
wedevs-project-manager- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Nov 13, 2024
This CVE was published Nov 13, 2024 and is one of 15 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update WP Project Manager – Task, team, and project management plugin featuring kanban board and gantt charts 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 WP Project Manager – Task, team, and project management plugin featuring kanban board and gantt charts plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in all versions up to, and including, 2.6.13 via the 'Abstract_Permission' class due to missing validation on the 'user_id' user controlled key. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to spoof their identity to that of an administrator and access all of the plugins REST routes.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L