WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Groundhogg — CRM, Newsletters, and Marketing Automation < 4.5.3 - Insecure Direct Object Reference

Description

The Groundhogg — CRM, Newsletters, and Marketing Automation plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in all versions up to, and including, 4.5.2 via the GET /wp-json/gh/v4/contacts/<id> REST endpoint. The endpoint's permission callback checks only the role-level view_contacts capability and read_single() returns the full contact record by sequential integer ID without the object-level view_contact ownership check applied elsewhere in the codebase. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers holding view_contacts but not view_others_contacts — notably Groundhogg's built-in Sales Rep role, designed to see only its own contacts — to read any contact record on the site, including PII, contact meta, owner IDs, the admin edit URL, and (for contacts linked to a WordPress user) that user's full capability set.

Affects Plugins

Fixed in 4.5.3

References

Classification

Type
IDOR
CWE

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Lucius-log
Verified
No

Timeline

Publicly Published
2026-08-04 (about 1 month ago)
Added
2026-08-04 (about 1 month ago)
Last Updated
2026-08-05 (about 1 month ago)

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