Participants Database <= 2.5.5 - Missing Authorization

5.3
Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2023-48751
CVSS 5.3 (Medium)
Publicly Published November 27, 2023
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher beluga

Description

The Participants Database plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized manipulation of data due to a missing capability check on several functions hooked via admin-post in all versions up to, and including, 2.5.5. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to add and modify record fields.

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Vulnerability Details for Participants Database

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug participants-database (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 2.5.6, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 2.5.5
Patched Version
  • 2.5.6

Recent vulnerabilities in Participants Database

# Title CVE ID CVSS Researchers Date
1 Participants Database <= 2.7.6.3 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2025-58008 6.4 zaim September 22, 2025
2 Participants Database <= 2.5.9.2 - Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection CVE-2024-43141 8.1 LVT-tholv2k August 7, 2024
3 Participants Database <= 2.4.9 - Authenticated(Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via plugin settings 4.4 May 3, 2023
4 Participants Database <= 2.4.9 - Cross-Site Request Forgery via _process_general CVE-2023-31235 5.4 Skalucy May 3, 2023
5 Participants Database <= 2.4.5 - Cross Site Request Forgery CVE-2022-47612 4.3 rezaduty January 20, 2023
6 Participants Database <= 1.9.5.5 - SQL Injection CVE-2020-8596 7.5 Teacish February 10, 2020
7 Participants Database <= 1.7.5.9 - Unauthorized Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2017-14126 6.1 Benjamin Lim September 6, 2017
8 Participants Database < 1.5.4.9 - SQL Injection CVE-2014-3961 9.8 Yarubo Research Team June 2, 2014

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