CVE-2024-8548 (GCVE-0-2024-8548)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-10-01 07:30
Modified
2024-10-01 15:40
Severity ?
8.1 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CWE
Summary
The KB Support – WordPress Help Desk and Knowledge Base plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification and loss of data due to a missing capability check on several functions in all versions up to, and including, 1.6.6. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to perform multiple administrative actions, such as replying to arbitrary tickets, updating the status of any post, deleting any post, adding notes to tickets, flagging or unflagging tickets, and adding or removing ticket participants.
References
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/kb-support/trunk/includes/ajax-functions.php#L138Product
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/kb-support/trunk/includes/ajax-functions.php#L172Product
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/kb-support/trunk/includes/ajax-functions.php#L211Product
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/kb-support/trunk/includes/ajax-functions.php#L240Product
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/kb-support/trunk/includes/ajax-functions.php#L458Product
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/kb-support/trunk/includes/ajax-functions.php#L531Product
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/kb-support/trunk/includes/ajax-functions.php#L580Product
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/kb-support/trunk/includes/ajax-functions.php#L605Product
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/kb-support/trunk/includes/ajax-functions.php#L630Product
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/kb-support/trunk/includes/ajax-functions.php#L649Product
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/kb-support/trunk/includes/ajax-functions.php#L801Product
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/kb-support/trunk/includes/ajax-functions.php#L869Product
security@wordfence.comhttps://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5fb90b3b-08bd-4887-a6bf-054b42d3e403?source=cveThird Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
cagdasdag KB Support – WordPress Help Desk and Knowledge Base Version: *   ≤ 1.6.6
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