System Dashboard, CVE-2023-5714

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2023-5714
Home page URL: Security reports for System Dashboard
Application: System Dashboard
Published on: Dec 07, 2023
Research Description: The System Dashboard plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data due to a missing capability check on the sd_db_specs() function hooked via an AJAX action in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.7. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to retrieve data key specs.
Affected versions: Min -, max 2.8.8.
Status: vulnerable