CVE-2023-5712 Information

Description

The System Dashboard plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data due to a missing capability check on the sd_global_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 sensitive global value information.

Reference

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/70f14d9d-6ed6-4bcb-944d-f9c5aa6a17a6?source=cve https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/system-dashboard/tags/2.8.7/admin/class-system-dashboard-admin.php#L7382 https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/system-dashboard/tags/2.8.8/admin/class-system-dashboard-admin.php#L7403