wedevs WP Project Manager Plugin up to 2.6.17 on WordPress Setting /pm/v2/settings/notice authorization

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in wedevs WP Project Manager Plugin up to 2.6.17 on WordPress. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file /pm/v2/settings/notice of the component Setting Handler. This manipulation causes authorization. This vulnerability is registered as CVE-2024-13752. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available.

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A vulnerability was found in wedevs WP Project Manager Plugin up to 2.6.17 on WordPress. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is some unknown processing of the file /pm/v2/settings/notice of the component Setting Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a authorization vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-862. The product does not perform an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action. As an impact it is known to affect availability. The summary by CVE is:

The WP Project Manager – Task, team, and project management plugin featuring kanban board and gantt charts plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized loss of data due to a missing capability check in the '/pm/v2/settings/notice' endpoint all versions up to, and including, 2.6.17. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to cause a persistent denial of service condition.

The weakness was published by Krzysztof Zając. The advisory is shared at wordfence.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2024-13752 since 01/27/2025. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 02/24/2025).

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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• Project Management Software

Vendor

• wedevs

Name

• WP Project Manager Plugin

Version

• 2.6.0
• 2.6.1
• 2.6.2
• 2.6.3
• 2.6.4
• 2.6.5
• 2.6.6
• 2.6.7
• 2.6.8
• 2.6.9
• 2.6.10
• 2.6.11
• 2.6.12
• 2.6.13
• 2.6.14
• 2.6.15
• 2.6.16
• 2.6.17

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