Weakness (CWE)
CWE-285: Improper Authorization
The product does not perform or incorrectly performs an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action.
How to prevent it (5 mitigations)
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Architecture and Design
Divide the product into anonymous, normal, privileged, and administrative areas. Reduce the attack surface by carefully mapping roles with data and functionality. Use role-based access control (RBAC) to enforce the roles at the appropriate boundaries.
Note that this approach may not protect against horizontal authorization, i.e., it will not protect a user from attacking others with the same role.
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Architecture and Design
Ensure that you perform access control checks related to your business logic. These checks may be different than the access control checks that you apply to more generic resources such as files, connections, processes, memory, and database records. For example, a database may restrict access for medical records to a specific database user, but each record might only be intended to be accessible to the patient and the patient's doctor.
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Architecture and Design
Use a vetted library or framework that does not allow this weakness to occur or provides constructs that make this weakness easier to avoid.
For example, consider using authorization frameworks such as the JAAS Authorization Framework [REF-233] and the OWASP ESAPI Access Control feature [REF-45].
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Architecture and Design
For web applications, make sure that the access control mechanism is enforced correctly at the server side on every page. Users should not be able to access any unauthorized functionality or information by simply requesting direct access to that page.
One way to do this is to ensure that all pages containing sensitive information are not cached, and that all such pages restrict access to requests that are accompanied by an active and authenticated session token associated with a user who has the required permissions to access that page.
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System Configuration, Installation
Use the access control capabilities of your operating system and server environment and define your access control lists accordingly. Use a "default deny" policy when defining these ACLs.
Source: MITRE CWE-285
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Medium 4.3CVE-2026-108924 Public exploit
getkirby Kirby Dynamic Option Generation OptionsQuery.php resolve authorization
A vulnerability was identified in getkirby Kirby up to 4.9.5/5.5.3. Affected by this issue is the function OptionsQuery::resolve of the file src/Option/OptionsQuery.php of the component Dynamic Option Generation. The manipulation leads to authorization bypass…
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Medium 5.4CVE-2026-102261 Public exploit
owen2345 Camaleon CMS Media Crop media_controller.rb crop authorization
A flaw has been found in owen2345 Camaleon CMS up to 2.9.2. Impacted is the function crop of the file app/controllers/camaleon_cms/admin/media_controller.rb of the component Media Crop Handler. This manipulation of the argument saved_avatar causes authorizati…
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Medium 5.5CVE-2026-84636 Public exploit
An authorization issue was addressed with improved state management. This issue is fixed in iOS 27 and iPadOS 27, tvOS …
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Medium 5.4CVE-2026-84600 Public exploit
An authorization issue was addressed with improved state management. This issue is fixed in iOS 27 and iPadOS 27, macOS…
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Medium 6.5CVE-2026-61082 Public exploit
Vulnerability in the MySQL Connectors product of Oracle MySQL (component: Connector/J). Supported versions that are aff…
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Medium 5.8CVE-2026-46552 Public exploit
NocoDB: Shared-base link access can invite arbitrary users as persistent base members
NocoDB is software for building databases as spreadsheets. Prior to 2026.04.1, shared-base sessions were granted the same base-member capabilities as authenticated viewers. Using only the shared-base UUID (xc-shared-base-id), an attacker could enumerate base …
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Medium 4.3CVE-2026-33146 Public exploit
Docmost's Public Share Search Exposes Metadata of Restricted Children
Docmost is open-source collaborative wiki and documentation software. An authorization bypass vulnerability in versions 0.70.0 through 0.70.2 exposes restricted child page titles and text snippets through the public search endpoint (`POST /api/search/share-se…
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Medium 6.5CVE-2026-24421 Public exploit
phpMyFAQ missing authorization exposes /api/setup/backup to any authenticated user
phpMyFAQ is an open source FAQ web application. Versions 4.0.16 and below have flawed authorization logic which exposes the /api/setup/backup endpoint to any authenticated user despite their permissions. SetupController.php uses userIsAuthenticated() but does…
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Medium 5.3CVE-2025-12720 Public exploit
g-FFL Cockpit <= 1.7.1 - Improper Authorization to Unauthenticated Product Deletion
The g-FFL Cockpit plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to IP-based authorization that can be spoofed in the handle_enqueue_only() function in all versions up to, and including, 1.7.1. This makes it possible for unauthent…
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Medium 5.3CVE-2025-11174 Public exploit
Document Library Lite <= 1.1.6 - Missing Authorization to Sensitive Information Exposure
The Document Library Lite plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Improper Authorization in all versions up to, and including, 1.1.6. This is due to the plugin exposing an unauthenticated AJAX action dll_load_posts which returns a JSON table of document data wi…
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Medium 4.3CVE-2025-5182 Public exploit
Summer Pearl Group Vacation Rental Management Platform Listing authorization
A vulnerability has been found in Summer Pearl Group Vacation Rental Management Platform up to 1.0.1 and classified as critical. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component Listing Handler. The manipulation leads to authorization bypass. The atta…
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Medium 5.3CVE-2024-10654 Public exploit
TOTOLINK LR350 formLoginAuth.htm authorization
A vulnerability has been found in TOTOLINK LR350 up to 9.3.5u.6369 and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file /formLoginAuth.htm. The manipulation of the argument authCode with the input 1 leads to autho…
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Medium 5.1CVE-2024-34463 Public exploit
BPL Personal Weighing Scale PWS-01BT IND/09/18/599 devices send sensitive information in unencrypted BLE packets. (The …
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Medium 5.3CVE-2024-45244 Public exploit
Hyperledger Fabric does not verify request has a timestamp within the expected time window
Hyperledger Fabric through 3.0.0 and 2.5.x through 2.5.9 do not verify that a request has a timestamp within the expected time window.
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Medium 5.9CVE-2022-24894 Public exploit
Symfony storing cookie headers in HttpCache
Symfony is a PHP framework for web and console applications and a set of reusable PHP components. The Symfony HTTP cache system, acts as a reverse proxy: It caches entire responses (including headers) and returns them to the clients. In a recent change in the…
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Medium 4.5CVE-2019-3842 Public exploit
In systemd before v242-rc4, it was discovered that pam_systemd does not properly sanitize the environment before using …
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Medium 5.3CVE-2018-10906 Public exploit
In fuse before versions 2.9.8 and 3.x before 3.2.5, fusermount is vulnerable to a restriction bypass when SELinux is ac…