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DW Question & Answer Pro <= 1.3.4 - Arbitrary Comment Edition via IDOR

Description

The plugin does not check that the comment to edit belongs to the user making the request, allowing any user to edit other comments.

Vendor was notified via Envato on September 28th, 2021, but did not properly fix the issue and was notified numerous times since.

Proof of Concept

As any authenticated user, post a comment and edit it while capturing the request made, then change the comment_id parameter to the comment to edit 

Affects Plugins

dw-question-answer-pro
No known fix

References

CVE
CVE-2021-24800

YouTube Video

Classification

Type

IDOR

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

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher

Brandon Roldan

Submitter

Brandon Roldan

Submitter twitter
tomorrowisnew_
Verified

Yes

WPVDB ID
cd37ca81-d683-4955-bc97-60204cb9c346

Timeline

Publicly Published

2022-03-29 (about 3 months ago)

Added

2022-03-29 (about 3 months ago)

Last Updated

2022-04-08 (about 3 months ago)

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