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 5.3
WordPress WP Delicious plugin <= 1.9.5 - Broken Access Control vulnerability
Missing Authorization vulnerability in WP Delicious WP Delicious delicious-recipes allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels.This issue affects WP Delicious: from n/a through <= 1.9.5.
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Medium 5.3
WordPress Display Eventbrite Events plugin <= 6.5.6 - Broken Access Control vulnerability
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Medium 5.3
WordPress weDocs plugin <= 2.1.18 - Broken Access Control vulnerability
Missing Authorization vulnerability in weDevs weDocs wedocs allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels.This issue affects weDocs: from n/a through <= 2.1.18.
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Medium 5.3
WordPress Directorist plugin <= 8.5.10 - Broken Access Control vulnerability
Missing Authorization vulnerability in wpWax Directorist directorist allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels.This issue affects Directorist: from n/a through <= 8.5.10.
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Medium 4.3
WordPress AI Engine (Pro) plugin < 3.4.2 - Broken Access Control vulnerability
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Medium 5.3
WordPress Seriously Simple Podcasting plugin <= 3.14.2 - Broken Access Control vulnerability
Missing Authorization vulnerability in Craig Hewitt Seriously Simple Podcasting seriously-simple-podcasting allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels.This issue affects Seriously Simple Podcasting: from n/a through <= 3.14.2.
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Medium 5.4
WordPress InstaWP Connect plugin <= 0.1.2.5 - Broken Access Control vulnerability
Missing Authorization vulnerability in InstaWP InstaWP Connect instawp-connect allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels.This issue affects InstaWP Connect: from n/a through <= 0.1.2.5.
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Medium 5.3
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Medium 4.3
WordPress Youtube Embed Plus plugin <= 14.2.4 - Broken Access Control vulnerability
Missing Authorization vulnerability in embedplus Youtube Embed Plus youtube-embed-plus allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels.This issue affects Youtube Embed Plus: from n/a through <= 14.2.4.
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Medium 6.5
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Missing Authorization vulnerability in SureCart SureCart surecart allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels.This issue affects SureCart: from n/a through <= 4.0.2.
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Medium 4.3
WordPress User Feedback plugin <= 1.10.1 - Broken Access Control vulnerability
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Medium 4.3
WordPress CartFlows plugin <= 2.2.3 - Broken Access Control vulnerability
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Medium 5.3
PZ Frontend Manager <= 1.0.6 - Missing Authorization to Arbitrary User Deletion via 'dataType' Parameter
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Medium 6.5
WP Blockade <= 0.9.14 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Shortcode Execution via 'shortcode' Parameter
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Medium 5.3
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Medium 5.3
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Medium 5.3
Hustle – Email Marketing, Lead Generation, Optins, Popups <= 7.8.10.2 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Conversion Tracking Data Manipulation
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Medium 5.4
Smart Slider 3 <= 3.5.1.33 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Contributor+) Slider Data Read and Image Record Manipulation
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Medium 5.3
Privilege Escalation via update_event Job Output in Cronicle
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Medium 5.3
RustFS has an authorization bypass in multipart UploadPartCopy enables cross-bucket object exfiltration
RustFS is a distributed object storage system built in Rust. Prior to alpha.90, RustFS contains a missing authorization check in the multipart copy path (UploadPartCopy). A low-privileged user who cannot read objects from a victim bucket can still exfiltrate …
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Medium 6.9
Frappe allows unrestricted Doctype access via API exploit
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Medium 5.3
OrangeHRM is Missing Authorization Checks in AbstractFileController Subclasses Expose Job Specification and Vacancy Attachments
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Medium 5.3
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Medium 5.3
File Browser discloses text file content via /api/resources endpoint bypassing Perm.Download check
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Medium 5.3
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Medium 5.3
Authorization Bypass in MLflow AJAX Endpoint
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Medium 5.4
WordPress Ocean Extra plugin <= 2.5.3 - Broken Access Control vulnerability
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Medium 5.3
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Medium 5.3
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Medium 4.3
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Medium 6.5
Technostrobe HI-LED-WR120-G2 FsBrowseClean deletefile authorization
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Medium 4.3
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Medium 4.3
Kadence Blocks — Page Builder Toolkit for Gutenberg Editor <= 3.6.3 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Contributor+) Media Upload
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Medium 6.5
Pie Register – User Registration, Profiles & Content Restriction <= 3.8.4.8 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Registration Form Status Modification
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Medium 5.3
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Medium 5.0
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Medium 5.0
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Medium 4.3
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Medium 6.5
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Medium 6.5
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