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 6.5
PayPlug for WooCommerce 2.8.0 - 3.1.0 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Order Deletion, Modification and Disclosure
The PayPlug for WooCommerce (Official) WordPress plugin before 3.1.1 does not perform any capability or ownership check on a set of unauthenticated AJAX actions that operate on a caller-supplied order identifier, allowing unauthenticated attackers to modify, …
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Medium 6.5
WPOrLogin < 3.1.0 - Unauthenticated Hide Login Slug Update
The WPOrLogin WordPress plugin before 3.1.0 does not perform a capability check or validate a nonce before updating its hidden-login URL settings, which could allow unauthenticated attackers to reassign the login, registration and password-recovery slugs and …
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Medium 5.3
Royal Elementor Addons 1.3.71 - 1.7.1069 - Unauthenticated Mailchimp Audience Injection via mailchimp_subscribe
The Royal Addons for Elementor WordPress plugin before 1.7.1070 does not perform any authorization check before using the site owner's stored Mailchimp credential to add subscriber records to an audience chosen by the request, allowing unauthenticated attacke…
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Low 3.8
Royal Elementor Addons 1.3.68 - 1.7.1069 - Author+ Form Submission Interception via Widget ID Collision
The Royal Addons for Elementor WordPress plugin before 1.7.1070 does not scope a contact form's email delivery configuration to the form's own document or owner, instead storing it in a site-global namespace keyed only on a non-secret, author-chosen identifie…
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Medium 5.3
Court Reservation < 1.12.4 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Challenge Deletion
The Court Reservation WordPress plugin before 1.12.4 does not perform any authorisation or nonce verification on one of its challenge-management actions, allowing unauthenticated users to delete arbitrary tournament-ladder challenge records, along with the li…
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Medium 5.3
Booking Package < 1.7.33 - Unauthenticated Verification Email Sending to Arbitrary Recipient
The Booking Package WordPress plugin before 1.7.33 does not restrict who can trigger its booking verification-code emails nor bind the recipient to server-side state, allowing unauthenticated users to make the site send templated verification-code emails to a…
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High 7.5
Animated Text Block <= 1.2.6 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure via 'id' Shortcode Attribute
The Animated Text Block plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in versions up to, and including, 1.2.6 via the 'animated-text' shortcode. This is due to the atb_shortcode_handler() function fetching an arbitrary post by attacker-…
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Medium 5.3
GROWI contains a missing authorization check vulnerability in its collaborative editing feature. By exploiting this vul…
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High 8.8
Missing authorization in Paint in Google Chrome prior to 156.0.8078.73 allowed a remote attacker to obtain cross-origin…
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High 8.8
Cronicle: Non-admin uid/gid injection in create_event/update_event → run-as-arbitrary-user (incl. root) — sibling of CVE-2026-39401
Cronicle is a multi-server task scheduler and runner, with a web based front-end UI. Prior to 0.9.121, a non-administrator user or scoped API key with `create_events` and `run_events` privileges can inject top-level `uid` and `gid` fields through `/api/app/cr…
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High 7.5
MembershipWorks WordPress Plugin < 6.17 Information Disclosure via WordPress REST API
The MembershipWorks plugin for WordPress before 6.17 contains an information disclosure vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to access member-only content through the WordPress REST API. Because the filter that strips protected content for non-…
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Medium 6.5
CVE-2026-118171
The strapi/content-manager package is missing content-scope authorization in the content manager preview URL endpoint. This allows low-privileged admins to generate preview URLs without knowing document identifiers or holding read permissions.
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Critical 9.1
CVE-2026-118170
The strapi/review-workflows package is vulnerable to a broken access control vulnerability allowing updates to be made without verifying whether the caller possesses update rights for the underlying document.
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Medium 6.0
Tanium addressed an improper access controls vulnerability in Comply.
Tanium addressed an improper access controls vulnerability in Comply.
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Medium 4.3
Tanium addressed an improper access controls vulnerability in Enforce.
Tanium addressed an improper access controls vulnerability in Enforce.
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Medium 5.3
OpenWISP Controller CA CRL REST API does not scope requests to managed organizations
OpenWISP Controller is a network and WiFi controller for provisioning, configuration management, updates, and PKI management. From 1.0.0 until 1.3.2, the GET /api/v1/controller/ca/<integer-id>/crl endpoint allows an authenticated organization manager with CA …
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Medium 6.5
CVE-2026-16491 CVE Record
Grafana’s RBAC service ignored the requested folder when checking whether a user was a folder administrator for deleted dashboard listings. A user with dashboard permission-management rights on any folder could therefore be treated as an administrator of ever…
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High 8.7
Fireware OS Missing Authentication in FireCluster Sync Allows Privilege Escalation
A missing authentication vulnerability in the FireCluster Sync processing allows an attacker positioned on the cluster interconnect, such as a compromised cluster peer or an on-path network attacker, to invoke privileged firewall management actions as root by…
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Critical 9.2
Fireware OS Missing Authentication in FireCluster Sync Daemon Allows Remote Root Action Injection
A missing authentication vulnerability in the Fireware OS FireCluster synchronization daemon allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to invoke privileged system-level administrative actions by sending a specially crafted request to the FireCluster managemen…
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Medium 4.8
Advanced Custom Fields: Extended <= 0.9.2.6 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Arbitrary Attachment Deletion via Email Action Dynamic File Field
The Advanced Custom Fields: Extended plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in all versions up to, and including, 0.9.2.6. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying that a user is authorized to perform an action. This makes it possi…
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Medium 6.5
REDAXO before 5.21.4 Missing Authorization in Version and History Previews
REDAXO core before 5.21.4 contains a missing authorization vulnerability in the structure/version and structure/history frontend preview modes, which do not check category or clang permissions for the previewed article. Any backend user, or one holding histor…
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High 7.5
REDAXO before 5.21.5 Privilege Escalation via Backup Export of Authentication Tables
REDAXO before 5.21.5 contains a missing authorization vulnerability in the backup addon export that accepts any database table, allowing non-admin users with the backup[export] permission to export rex_user, rex_user_session, and other applications' tables. A…
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Medium 6.8
REDAXO core before 5.21.5 Missing Authorization in rex_api_package API
REDAXO core before 5.21.5 contains a missing authorization vulnerability in the rex_api_package API function that lets non-admin backend users manage packages with only a valid CSRF token. Attackers holding a token, such as demoted admins with active sessions…
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High 7.3
Semantic MediaWiki 3.0.0 before 7.3.0 Missing Authorization via smwtask API
Semantic MediaWiki from 3.0.0 before 7.3.0 contains a missing authorization vulnerability in the api.php smwtask module that allows unauthenticated attackers to run admin-only maintenance tasks. Attackers can use the public anonymous CSRF token to read intern…
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Medium 5.4
Semantic MediaWiki 7.3.0 before 7.3.1 Missing Authorization via smwtask Update Task
Semantic MediaWiki from 7.3.0 before 7.3.1 contains a missing authorization vulnerability in the smwtask update task that allows users with edit rights to force semantic updates on arbitrary pages. Attackers can supply a serialized subject parameter for a res…
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High 7.1
Semantic MediaWiki 2.5.0 before 7.3.1 Missing Authorization via Is edit protected
Semantic MediaWiki from 2.5.0 before 7.3.1 contains an improper authorization vulnerability that allows ordinary editors to permanently protect pages by adding an Is edit protected annotation. When $smwgEditProtectionRight is enabled, EditProtectionUpdater ap…
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High 7.3
Semantic MediaWiki 7.3.0 Missing Authorization via smwtask API run-joblist and update
Semantic MediaWiki from 7.3.0 before 7.3.1 contains a missing authorization vulnerability in the smwtask API module that allows unauthenticated attackers to run queued jobs and force store updates. Attackers can use the public anonymous CSRF token with run-jo…
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High 8.3
Missing Authorization in Compute Engine allows Cross-Project Disk Exfiltration
A Missing Authorization vulnerability in the disks.createSnapshot and regionDisks.createSnapshot APIs in Google Compute Engine versions prior to 2026-08-31 on Google Cloud Platform allows an authenticated attacker to exfiltrate cross-project disk data. This v…
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Medium 5.4
File-transfer type confusion permits unauthorized repository writes in Psono Server
Psono Server (CE & EE) versions 1.0.0 through 7.2.3 did not enforce the direction of file-transfer credentials on file-repository operations. An authenticated remote attacker with read-only access to a file could present a download transfer to the upload endp…
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High 7.3
code-projects Simple Content Management System Admin welcome.php authorization
A vulnerability was detected in code-projects Simple Content Management System 1.0. Impacted is an unknown function of the file /web/admin/welcome.php of the component Admin Interface. The manipulation of the argument addnews results in missing authorization.…
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Medium 5.5
An authorization issue was addressed with improved state management. This issue is fixed in iOS 27.2 and iPadOS 27.2, m…
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Medium 5.5
An authorization issue was addressed with improved access control. This issue is fixed in iOS 27.2 and iPadOS 27.2, mac…
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Medium 5.5
An authorization issue was addressed with improved state management. This issue is fixed in macOS Golden Gate 27.2, mac…
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Medium 5.5
An authorization issue was addressed with improved entitlement checks. This issue is fixed in iOS 27.2 and iPadOS 27.2.…
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Medium 5.5
An authorization issue was addressed with improved state management. This issue is fixed in macOS Golden Gate 27, macOS…
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High 7.8
An authorization issue was addressed with improved access control. This issue is fixed in macOS Golden Gate 27.2, macOS…
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High 7.5
This issue was addressed with additional entitlement checks. This issue is fixed in iOS 26.7.2 and iPadOS 26.7.2, iOS 2…
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Medium 4.4
A permissions issue was addressed with additional restrictions. This issue is fixed in macOS Golden Gate 27, macOS Sequ…
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Medium 4.9
A permissions issue was addressed with additional restrictions. This issue is fixed in macOS Golden Gate 27.2, macOS Ta…
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Medium 5.5
An authorization issue was addressed with improved state management. This issue is fixed in iOS 26.7.2 and iPadOS 26.7.…