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DW Question & Answer Pro <= 1.3.6 — Missing Authorization Checks

CVE-2021-24800Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤1.3.6Update to 1.3.7 or newer

All remediation steps
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Severity
Medium5.4
CVSS
5.4
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:L Privileges required
Low
UI:N User interaction
None
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:L Confidentiality
Low
I:L Integrity
Low
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-639 Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
Required access
Unknown
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
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Am I affected?

DW Question Answer Pro dw-question-answer-pro

  1. Affected≤ 1.3.6
  2. Patched in1.3.7

Update to 1.3.7 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 1.3.6. Version 1.3.7 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under DW Question Answer Pro.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.

What to do

  1. Update to version 1.3.7, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch DW Question Answer Pro to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Brandon James Roldan (tomorrowisnew).

The DW Question & Answer Pro WordPress plugin through 1.3.6 does not check that the comment to edit belongs to the user making the request, allowing any user to edit other comments.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

More in DW Question Answer Pro

All 2
More vulnerabilities in DW Question Answer Pro
SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
Medium5.4Cross-Site Request Forgery
≤1.3.6Update to 1.3.7
CVE-2021-24805

Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity medium, CVSS 5.4

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
[object Object]. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
VulnCrest content
Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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