Vulnerability Report
Plugin High

wpDataTables (Premium) <= 3.4.1 - Improper Access Control leading to Table Data Deletion

The wpDataTables – Tables & Table Charts premium WordPress plugin before 3.4.2 has Improper Access Control. A low privilege authenticated user that visits the page where the table is published can tamper the parameters to delete the data of another user that are present in the same table through id_key and id_val parameters. By exploiting this issue an attacker is able to delete the data of all users in the same table. Please note that this only affects the premium version of the plugin which shares the same slug as the free version.

Published
Mar 16, 2021
Last Updated
Jan 22, 2024
Slug
wpdatatables
Detailed Metadata
Software Type Plugin
Software Slug
wpdatatables View on wordpress.org
CVE CVE-2021-24198
Patched Versions
3.4.2
Affected Versions
[*, 3.4.2)
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