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CVE-2021-24197

CVE-2021-24197 — wpDataTables < 3.4.2 - Improper Access Control leading to Table Permission Takeover

The wpDataTables – Tables & Table Charts premium WordPress plugin before 3.4.2 has Improper Access Control. A low privilege authenticated user that visits the page where the table is published can tamper the parameters to access the data of another user that are present in the same table by taking over the user permissions on the table through formdata[wdt_ID] parameter. By exploiting this issue an attacker is able to access and manage the data of all users in the same table.

Published Updated Sources: cvelistV5, WPScan

Triage

Is it exploited, how likely is exploitation, what does it touch, and how severe do the scoring sources call it.

Exploitation

Unreported

no source claims exploitation

EPSS

1%

chance of exploitation in 30 days

Affects

wpdatatables

wpdatatables_tables_table_charts

CVSS base

Unscored

no source published a base score

Affected scope

The catalog records vendors and products as separate lists, not pairs, so which product belongs to which vendor is not something this page can say.

Vendors (1)

wpdatatables

Products (1)

wpdatatables tables table charts

Weakness & attack patterns

  • CWE-284

Attack patterns reported against this CVE. The ATT&CK techniques below are inferred from its weakness class.

  • T1027.009Obfuscated Files or Information: Embedded Payloads
  • T1546.004Event Triggered Execution: .bash_profile and .bashrc
  • T1546.016Event Triggered Execution: Installer Packages

References

3 on the record

Elsewhere on this site

Not in any source we poll

Listed rather than left blank: an empty field and an unmeasured one look identical on screen, and only one is a reason to look elsewhere.

  • No confirmed IOCs, IP addresses, domains, file hashes, or malware artifacts supplied.
  • No organization-specific asset inventory, compensating-control status, or patch deployment evidence supplied.
  • No exploit packet captures, log samples, or incident case IDs supplied.