Weakness (CWE)
CWE-862: Missing Authorization
The product does not perform 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) [REF-229] 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 access control checks are performed related to the business logic. These checks may be different than the access control checks that are applied 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 [REF-7].
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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-862
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Medium 4.9
Snipe-IT's selectlist visibility is too permissive
Snipe-IT is an IT asset/license management system. Prior to version 8.6.1, the GET /api/v1/{object}/selectlist API endpoint is missing an authorization check. Any user who can log into Snipe-IT - regardless of permissions - can retrieve a paginated list of al…
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Medium 4.3
Missing Authorization in GitLab
GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 9.1 before 18.11.7, 19.0 before 19.0.4, and 19.1 before 19.1.2 that under certain conditions could have allowed an unauthenticated user to determine the existence of a private project …
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Medium 4.3
Missing Authorization in GitLab
GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 18.9 before 18.11.7, 19.0 before 19.0.4, and 19.1 before 19.1.2 that under certain conditions could have allowed an authenticated user with minimal access permissions to read work item me…
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Medium 6.5
Gumroad < 2026.07.06.2 - Insecure Direct Object Reference in PurchasesController
Gumroad before 2026.07.06.2 contains a broken access control vulnerability in the PurchasesController that allows authenticated sellers to manipulate purchase access for other sellers' products by sending PUT requests to the revoke_access and undo_revoke_acce…
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Medium 6.5
AFFiNE - Unauthorized Document Edit History Access via GraphQL histories Field
AFFiNE's histories GraphQL field fails to validate Doc.Read permission before exposing document edit history, allowing authenticated workspace members to retrieve restricted content timelines. Attackers can supply arbitrary document GUIDs to access full edit …
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Medium 5.3
MISP importModule missing authorization allows read-only users to modify events via misp_standard imports
An authorization bypass in MISP’s EventsController::importModule() allowed authenticated users or read-only API keys with event view access to persist data to events they were not allowed to modify. When an import module returned results in the misp_standard …
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Medium 4.3
flask-dashboard Flask-MonitoringDashboard cross-site request forgery
A vulnerability has been found in flask-dashboard Flask-MonitoringDashboard up to 5.0.2. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality. Such manipulation leads to cross-site request forgery. The attack may be launched remotely. The exploit has been dis…
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Medium 5.3
User Management <= 1.2 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Plugin Settings Modification
The User Management plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in all versions up to, and including, 1.2. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying that a user is authorized to perform an action. This makes it possible for unauthenticat…
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Medium 5.4
Coder: Devcontainer recreate endpoint missing write authorization allows read-only roles to destroy containers
Coder allows organizations to provision remote development environments via Terraform. Prior to versions 2.29.7, 2.32.7, 2.33.8, and 2.34.2, the devcontainer recreate endpoint relied on route middleware that checked only `ActionRead` on the workspace and, unl…
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Medium 5.4
Coder's sub-agent app registration bypasses template port-sharing policy enforcement
Coder allows organizations to provision remote development environments via Terraform. Prior to versions 2.29.7, 2.32.7, 2.33.8, and 2.34.2, the `CreateSubAgent` RPC did not validate a requested app sharing level against the template's `MaxPortSharingLevel` b…
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Medium 6.9
Chevereto private profile setting leaks username on /json endpoint
Chevereto is a self-hosted media-sharing platform. Starting in version 3.7.5 and prior to version 4.5.4, when a user enables the private profile option, visiting their profile HTML route (`/username`) correctly returns 404. However, the `/json` AJAX listing e…
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Medium 4.3
Ghostfolio - Unauthorized Portfolio Holding Tag Modification via Missing Permission Check
Ghostfolio's PUT /api/v1/portfolio/holding/:dataSource/:symbol/tags endpoint fails to verify Access.permissions field when processing the Impersonation-Id header, allowing read-only access grantees to modify portfolio holding tags. Attackers with valid read-o…
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Medium 6.9CVE-2026-53647 Public exploit
FOSSBilling vulnerable to unauthenticated API key configuration disclosure via guest Serviceapikey get_info endpoint
FOSSBilling is a free, open-source billing and client management system. In versions 0.5.3 through 0.7.2, the Guest `serviceapikey/get_info` API endpoint is accessible without authentication. Any caller with a valid API key can retrieve all custom configurati…
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Medium 6.5
Coolify Settings/Updates Livewire component missing instance administrator authorization
Coolify is an open-source and self-hostable tool for managing servers, applications, and databases. Prior to 4.0.0-beta.471, the Settings/Updates Livewire component does not check isInstanceAdmin in its mount method, allowing non-admin users to access the Upd…
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Medium 4.3
imhamzaazam ecommerceFlask cross-site request forgery
A weakness has been identified in imhamzaazam ecommerceFlask up to cb7d9e24c30a99379651b7493b32048126ef402b. The affected element is an unknown function. This manipulation causes cross-site request forgery. The attack may be initiated remotely. The exploit ha…
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Medium 4.3
Craft CMS Charts Endpoint ChartsController.php actionGetNewUsersData improper authorization
A flaw has been found in Craft CMS up to 4.18.0.1. Affected by this vulnerability is the function actionGetNewUsersData of the file src/controllers/ChartsController.php of the component Charts Endpoint. This manipulation of the argument userGroupId causes imp…
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Medium 4.3
Craft CMS reorder-sets Endpoint GlobalsController.php actionReorderSets authorization
A vulnerability was detected in Craft CMS up to 4.18.0.1. Affected is the function actionReorderSets of the file src/controllers/GlobalsController.php of the component reorder-sets Endpoint. The manipulation results in authorization bypass. The attack can be …
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Medium 4.3
Gitea issue-template APIs bypass repository unit authorization
Gitea versions up to and including 1.26.1 do not enforce repository-unit authorization on issue-template API endpoints.
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Medium 4.3
Gitea user organization API bypasses public-only token filtering
Gitea versions up to and including 1.26.1 do not apply public-only token filtering consistently to the user organization API, leaving an incomplete fix for CVE-2025-68941.
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Medium 5.3
LatePoint <= 5.6.1 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Arbitrary Customer Data Modification via process_step_customer() Booking Form Customer Step
The LatePoint – Calendar Booking Plugin for Appointments and Events plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in all versions up to, and including, 5.6.1. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying that a user is authorized to perform a…
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Medium 4.3
Quiz and Survey Master (QSM) <= 11.1.4 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Contributor+) Arbitrary Quiz Modification and Email Reroute via Leaked Nonce from /quiz/structure
The Quiz and Survey Master (QSM) – Easy Quiz and Survey Maker plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in all versions up to, and including, 11.1.4. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying that a user is authorized to perform an act…
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Medium 5.3
Ninja Forms - File Uploads <= 3.3.29 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Log Disclosure and Deletion via debug-log/delete-all and debug-log/get-all REST Endpoints
The Ninja Forms - File Uploads plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in all versions up to, and including, 3.3.29. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying that a user is authorized to perform an action. This makes it possible for…
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Medium 4.3
weDocs: AI Powered Knowledge Base, Docs, Documentation, Wiki & AI Chatbot <= 2.3.0 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Data Migration via wedocs_migrate_betterdocs_to_wedocs AJAX Action
The weDocs: AI Powered Knowledge Base, Docs, Documentation, Wiki & AI Chatbot plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Missing Authorization in versions up to and including 2.3.0. This is due to a missing capability check on the do_migration() function registere…
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Medium 5.3
Taiga < 6.10.2 - Unauthorized Due-Date Creation via API Viewsets
Taiga before 6.10.2 contains a missing authorization vulnerability that allows unauthenticated remote attackers to create default due-date records in any project by exploiting unprotected POST endpoints on the user-story, task, and issue due-date API viewsets…
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Medium 4.9
Craft CMS: Unauthorized Deletion of Destination Folders During Forced Moves
Craft CMS is a content management system (CMS). Versions 5.0.0-RC1 and above, prior to 5.9.21 and versions 4.0.0-RC1 and above prior to 4.17.14 contain an authorization issue where a forced folder move can delete a conflicting destination folder without desti…
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Medium 5.3
WordPress Sendcloud Shipping plugin <= 1.0.29 - Broken Access Control vulnerability
Missing Authorization vulnerability in Sendcloud Sendcloud Shipping allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels. This issue affects Sendcloud Shipping: from n/a through 1.0.29.
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Medium 5.3
WordPress ez Form Calculator Premium plugin <= 2.14.1.2 - Broken Access Control vulnerability
Unauthenticated Broken Access Control in ez Form Calculator Premium <= 2.14.1.2 versions.
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Medium 6.5
WordPress Flatsome theme <= 3.20.5 - Broken Access Control vulnerability
Contributor Broken Access Control in Flatsome <= 3.20.5 versions.
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Medium 4.3
WordPress Flatsome theme <= 3.20.5 - Broken Access Control vulnerability
Subscriber Broken Access Control in Flatsome <= 3.20.5 versions.
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Medium 4.3
WordPress Werkstatt theme <= 4.7.2 - Broken Access Control vulnerability
Subscriber Broken Access Control in Werkstatt <= 4.7.2 versions.
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Medium 4.3
WordPress Martfury - WooCommerce Marketplace WordPress theme theme <= 3.2.8 - Broken Access Control vulnerability
Subscriber Broken Access Control in Martfury - WooCommerce Marketplace WordPress Theme <= 3.2.8 versions.
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Medium 6.5
WordPress Advanced Contact form 7 DB plugin <= 2.0.9 - Broken Access Control vulnerability
Subscriber Broken Access Control in Advanced Contact form 7 DB <= 2.0.9 versions.
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Medium 6.5
WordPress Classified Listing plugin <= 5.4.2 - Broken Access Control vulnerability
Subscriber Broken Access Control in Classified Listing <= 5.4.2 versions.
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Medium 6.5
WordPress Link Whisper Premium plugin <= 2.9.0 - Broken Access Control vulnerability
Subscriber Broken Access Control in Link Whisper Premium <= 2.9.0 versions.
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Medium 6.5
WordPress Motors theme < 5.6.85 - Broken Access Control vulnerability
Missing Authorization vulnerability in StylemixThemes Motors motors allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels.This issue affects Motors: from n/a before 5.6.85.
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Medium 5.3
WordPress Woostify Sites Library plugin <= 1.6.2 - Broken Access Control vulnerability
Unauthenticated Broken Access Control in Woostify Sites Library <= 1.6.2 versions.
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Medium 5.3
Kirki <= 6.0.11 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Arbitrary Email Content Injection (Mail Relay / Phishing) via 'emailBody' and 'emailSubject' Parameters
The Kirki – Freeform Page Builder, Website Builder & Customizer plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in all versions up to, and including, 6.0.11. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying that a user is authorized to perform an a…
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Medium 4.3
JoomSport <= 5.7.8 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Missing Authorization to Arbitrary Group Creation/Modification via season_groupedit AJAX action
The JoomSport – for Sports: Team & League, Football, Hockey & more plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in all versions up to, and including, 5.7.8. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying that a user is authorized to perform an…
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Medium 5.3
Kirki <= 6.0.11 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure via kirki_post_apis_nopriv AJAX Action
The Kirki – Freeform Page Builder, Website Builder & Customizer plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 6.0.11 via the get_single_symbol. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers t…
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Medium 5.3
JetFormBuilder <= 3.6.3 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Disclosure via 'context' Parameter
The JetFormBuilder — Dynamic Blocks Form Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in all versions up to, and including, 3.6.3. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying that a user is authorized to perform an action. This make…