GamiPress < 6.8.9 - Broken Access Control

2024-04-0800:00:00

cyc707

gamipress

broken access control

poc

april 22 2024

exploit

6.6 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

9.1%

JSON

Description The plugin’s access control mechanism fails to properly restrict access to its settings, permitting Authors to manipulate requests and extend access to lower privileged users, like Subscribers, despite initial settings prohibiting such access. This vulnerability resembles broken access control, enabling unauthorized users to modify critical plugin configurations.

- Inferred parameter values

Administrator > manage_options
Editor > delete_others_posts
Author > publish_posts
Contributor > edit_posts
Subscriber > read