CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-8689
4.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2026-05-28
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-862
Description
The Visualizer: Tables and Charts Manager for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Missing Authorization in all versions up to, and including, 3.11.14. This is due to a missing capability check on the renderChartPages() and uploadData() functions, where the wp_ajax_visualizer-create-chart and wp_ajax_visualizer-edit-chart AJAX actions invoke renderChartPages() without any current_user_can() check, and wp_ajax_visualizer-upload-data invokes uploadData() which also lacks a capability check and validates its nonce without an action argument, making it trivially bypassable. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to create arbitrary chart posts and access or modify chart data belonging to other users, including administrators.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-862 Missing Authorization weakness
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/visualizer/tags/3.11.14/classes/Visualizer/Module/Chart.php#L1221 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/visualizer/tags/3.11.14/classes/Visualizer/Module/Chart.php#L531 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/visualizer/tags/3.11.14/classes/Visualizer/Module/Chart.php#L56 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/visualizer/tags/4.0.1/classes/Visualizer/Module/Chart.php#L1221 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/visualizer/tags/4.0.1/classes/Visualizer/Module/Chart.php#L531 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/visualizer/tags/4.0.1/classes/Visualizer/Module/Chart.php#L56 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3474710 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d18e9696-0f96-4478-9871-a93ac2976c11?source=cve www.wordfence.com