Student Result or Employee Database <= 1.7.9 — Missing Authorization
dc2532b4-907f-438b-baab-c3966cf30f74Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤1.7.9Update to 1.8.0 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- High7.2
- CVSS
- 7.2CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:NWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:NPrivileges required- None
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:CScope- Changed
C:LConfidentiality- Low
I:LIntegrity- Low
A:NAvailability- None
- Weakness
- CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization
- Required access
- No account needed
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
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Am I affected?
Student Result or Employee Database simple-student-result
- Affected≤ 1.7.9
- Patched in1.8.0
Update to 1.8.0 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 1.7.9. Version 1.8.0 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Student Result or Employee Database.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
- No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.
What to do
- Update to version 1.8.0, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Student Result or Employee Database to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to WPScanTeam.
The Student Results or Employee Database plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized REST calls in versions up to, and including 1.7.9. This is due to flawed permission callback in the plugin's REST endpoints. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to utilize these endpoints to add, modify or delete students
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
Related CVEs
More in Student Result or Employee Database
All 3| Severity | Vulnerability | CVE | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium6.1 | Cross-Site Request Forgery to Stored Cross-Site Scripting ≤1.7.4Update to 1.7.5 | CVE-2022-2312 | |
| Critical9.8 | Authentication Bypass ≤1.6.3Update to 1.6.4 | CVE-2017-14766 |
- Medium6.1Cross-Site Request Forgery to Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤1.7.4Update to 1.7.5
- Critical9.8Authentication Bypass
≤1.6.3Update to 1.6.4
Timeline
CVE published
Severity high, CVSS 7.2
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
- 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.