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 4.3
Missing Authorization check in Business Server Pages Application (Product Designer Web UI)
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Medium 5.3
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Medium 5.3
Contact Form vCard Generator <= 2.4 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure via 'wp-gvc-cf-download-id' Parameter
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Medium 6.5CVE-2025-14172 Public exploit
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Medium 6.5
Missing Authorization in GitLab
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Medium 4.3
Tutor LMS – eLearning and online course solution <= 3.9.3 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Course Completion
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Medium 4.3
Tutor LMS – eLearning and online course solution <= 3.9.3 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Course Enrollment Bypass
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Medium 4.3
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Medium 5.3
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Medium 5.4
Schedule Post Changes With PublishPress Future: Unpublish, Delete, Change Status, Trash, Change Categories <= 4.9.3 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Contributor+) Workflow Manipulation
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Medium 5.3
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Medium 5.3
Forminator Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder <= 1.49.1 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Forminator User+) CSV Export
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Medium 5.3
Japanized for WooCommerce <= 2.7.17 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Order Status Modification
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Medium 5.3
WordPress Re Gallery plugin <= 1.18.9 - Broken Access Control vulnerability
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Medium 4.3
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Medium 5.3
WordPress Dashboard Welcome for Beaver Builder plugin <= 1.0.8 - Broken Access Control vulnerability
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Medium 5.4
WordPress Bulk Landing Page Creator for WordPress LPagery plugin <= 2.4.9 - Broken Access Control vulnerability
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Medium 4.3
WordPress Docket Cache plugin <= 24.07.04 - Broken Access Control vulnerability
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Medium 5.4
WordPress GA4WP: Google Analytics for WordPress plugin <= 2.10.0 - Broken Access Control vulnerability
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Medium 6.5
WordPress Block Slider plugin <= 2.2.3 - Broken Access Control vulnerability
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Medium 4.3
WordPress Campaign Monitor for WordPress plugin <= 2.9.1 - Broken Access Control vulnerability
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Medium 5.3
WordPress Zorka theme <= 1.5.7 - Broken Access Control vulnerability
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Medium 6.5
WordPress Fluent Support plugin <= 1.10.4 - Broken Access Control vulnerability
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Medium 6.5
WordPress Traveler theme <= 3.2.6 - Broken Access Control vulnerability
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Medium 6.5
WordPress Aruba HiSpeed Cache plugin < 3.0.3 - Broken Access Control vulnerability
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Medium 6.5
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Medium 4.3
Folders – Unlimited Folders to Organize Media Library Folder, Pages, Posts, File Manager <= 3.1.5 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Author+) Media Replacement
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Medium 4.3
LibreChat has Insufficient Access Control for Agent Permission Queries
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Medium 6.5
WordPress The Plus Addons for Elementor Pro plugin < 6.3.7 - Broken Access Control vulnerability
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Medium 4.3
WordPress JetEngine plugin <= 3.8.1.1 - Broken Access Control vulnerability
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Medium 4.3
WordPress Oneline Lite theme <= 6.6 - Broken Access Control vulnerability
Missing Authorization vulnerability in themehunk Oneline Lite oneline-lite allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels.This issue affects Oneline Lite: from n/a through <= 6.6.
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Medium 5.3
Fluent Forms <= 6.1.7 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Form Creation via AI Builder
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Medium 5.3
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Medium 5.3
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Medium 5.3
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Medium 5.3
Unify <= 3.4.9 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Option Deletion via 'unify_plugin_downgrade' Parameter
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Medium 5.4
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Medium 4.3
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Medium 6.5
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