CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-3636
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2023-08-31
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-269
Description
The WP Project Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in versions up to, and including, 2.6.4 due to insufficient restriction on the 'save_users_map_name' function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with minimal permissions such as a subscriber, to modify their user role by supplying the 'usernames' parameter.
Affected configurations
• wedevs wp project manager (< 2.6.5)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management weakness
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wedevs-project-manager/tags/2.6.3/src/User/Controllers/User_Controller.php#L158 Product
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2942291/wedevs-project-manager#file1792 Patch
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6a5e4708-db3e-483c-852f-1a487825cf92?source=cve Third Party Advisory
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wedevs-project-manager/tags/2.6.3/src/User/Controllers/User_Controller.php#L158 Product
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2942291/wedevs-project-manager#file1792 Patch
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6a5e4708-db3e-483c-852f-1a487825cf92?source=cve Third Party Advisory