CVE-2023-46606
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

A Missing Authorization vulnerability was discovered in AtomChat affecting versions through 1.1.4. The vulnerability allows exploiting incorrectly configured access control security levels (Patchstack). The vulnerability was reported on May 11, 2023 and published on October 24, 2023 with identifier CVE-2023-46606.

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as a Broken Access Control issue (CWE-862) with a CVSS v3.1 Base Score of 5.3 (Medium) and vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N. The issue stems from missing authorization, authentication or nonce token checks in certain functions that could allow unprivileged users to execute higher privileged actions (Patchstack).

Impact

The vulnerability has a low severity impact according to the vendor assessment. It allows unauthorized access to certain functions that should require higher privileges (Patchstack).

Mitigation and workarounds

Users should update to AtomChat version 1.1.5 or later which contains fixes for this vulnerability (Patchstack).

Additional resources


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