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WP Project Manager – Task, team, and project management plugin featuring kanban board and gantt charts, CVE-2023-3636

CVE, Research URL

CVE-2023-3636

Published on
Aug 31, 2023
Research 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 versions
Min -, max 2.6.1.
Status
vulnerable