Vulnerability CVE-2023-5713
Published: 2023-12-07   Modified: 2023-12-14

Description:
The System Dashboard plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data due to a missing capability check on the sd_option_value() function hooked via an AJAX action in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.7. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to retrieve potentially sensitive option values, and deserialize the content of those values.

Type:

CWE-862

 (Missing Authorization)

Affected software
BOWO -> System dashboard 

 References:
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e9d1a33b-2518-48f7-90b6-a94a34473d1e?source=cve
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/system-dashboard/tags/2.8.7/admin/class-system-dashboard-admin.php#L6341
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/system-dashboard/tags/2.8.8/admin/class-system-dashboard-admin.php#L6357
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