Staff Employee Business Directory for Active Directory Plugin LDAP missing authentication

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Staff Employee Business Directory for Active Directory Plugin up to 1.2.3 on WordPress. This affects an unknown function of the component LDAP Handler. The manipulation leads to an unknown weakness. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2023-4505. There is not any exploit available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Staff Employee Business Directory for Active Directory Plugin up to 1.2.3 on WordPress (WordPress Plugin). It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component LDAP Handler. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-306. The product does not perform any authentication for functionality that requires a provable user identity or consumes a significant amount of resources. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The weakness was released 09/25/2023. The advisory is shared at wordfence.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2023-4505 since 08/23/2023. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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Productinfo

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CPE 2.2info

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 3.8
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 3.8

VulDB Base Score: 4.3
VulDB Temp Score: 4.2
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CNA Base Score: 2.2
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Missing authentication
CWE: CWE-306 / CWE-287
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

Availability: 🔍
Status: Not defined

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: no mitigation known
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Timelineinfo

08/23/2023 🔍
09/25/2023 +33 days 🔍
09/25/2023 +0 days 🔍
04/10/2026 +928 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: wordfence.com
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2023-4505 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2023-4505
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-240281

Entryinfo

Created: 09/25/2023 16:41
Updated: 04/10/2026 16:37
Changes: 09/25/2023 16:41 (36), 10/16/2023 08:27 (1), 10/16/2023 08:28 (22), 04/10/2026 16:37 (16)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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