Student Result or Employee Database <= 1.6.3 - Authentication Bypass

9.8
Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel
CVE CVE-2017-14766
CVSS 9.8 (Critical)
Publicly Published September 21, 2017
Last Updated December 5, 2022
Researcher Benjamin Lim

Description

The Simple Student Result plugin before 1.6.4 for WordPress has an Authentication Bypass vulnerability because the fn_ssr_add_st_submit() function and fn_ssr_del_st_submit() function in functions.php only require knowing the student id number.

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1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug simple-student-result (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 1.6.4, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 1.6.3
Patched Version
  • 1.6.4

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