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. Exploitation requires at least subscriber-level access. 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
- Feb 15, 2025
- Weakness
- CWE-862 — Missing Authorization
This CVE was published Feb 15, 2025 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 unauthorized loss of data due to a missing capability check in the '/pm/v2/settings/notice' endpoint all versions up to, and including, 2.6.17. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to cause a persistent denial of service condition.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Primary and upstream sources
- NVD record for CVE-2024-13752
- WordPress upstream reference plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- WordPress upstream reference plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- WordPress upstream reference plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- WordPress upstream reference plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- WordPress upstream reference plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- WordPress.org plugin page wordpress.org
- Wordfence advisory wordfence.com