wpDiscuz <= 7.6.3 - Insecure Direct Object Reference to Comment Rating Increase/Decrease

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

• gvectors wpdiscuzup to 7.6.3 inclusive

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (Wordfence). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

• advancedcoding Comments – wpDiscuz

  • up to and including 7.6.3affected · semver

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

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• CVE-2023-45760WordPress wpDiscuz plugin <= 7.6.3 - Broken Access Control vulnerability
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FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Root cause

The endpoint fetches the record by the ID sent in the request, but never checks whether the record belongs to the requesting user.

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

1const invoice = await Invoice.findById(req.params.id);2res.json(invoice);

1const invoice = await Invoice.findOne({2  id: req.params.id,3  ownerId: req.user.id,4});5if (!invoice) return res.sendStatus(404);6res.json(invoice);

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.

MITRE has no CAPEC/ATT&CK mapping for this CWE.