CVE-2023-4505

Staff / Employee Business Directory for Active Directory <= 1.2.3 - Authenticated (Admin+) LDAP Passback

Severity Score

4.9

*CVSS v3.1

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

The Staff / Employee Business Directory for Active Directory plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to LDAP Passback in versions up to, and including, 1.2.3. This is due to insufficient validation when changing the LDAP server. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrative access and above, to change the LDAP server and retrieve the credentials for the original LDAP server.

El complemento Staff / Employee Business Directory para Active Directory para WordPress es vulnerable a LDAP Passback en versiones hasta la 1.2.3 inclusive. Esto se debe a una validación insuficiente al cambiar el servidor LDAP. Esto hace posible que atacantes autenticados, con acceso administrativo y superior, cambien el servidor LDAP y recuperen las credenciales del servidor LDAP original.

*Credits: Pedro José Navas Pérez

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

High

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

None

Availability

None

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

High

Privileges Required

High

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

Low

Integrity

None

Availability

None

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2023-08-23 CVE Reserved
2023-09-25 CVE Published
2024-08-02 CVE Updated
2024-08-02 First Exploit
2024-08-26 EPSS Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date

CWE

CWE-306: Missing Authentication for Critical Function

CAPEC

References (3)

URL	Tag	Source
https://wordpress.org/plugins/ldap-ad-staff-employee-directory-search	Product
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/1ea40b96-4693-4f98-8e6e-2ed8186cedd8?source=cve	Third Party Advisory

URL	Date	SRC
https://medium.com/%40cybertrinchera/cve-2023-4506-cve-2023-4505-ldap-passback-on-miniorange-plugins-ca7328c84313	2024-08-02

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Miniorange Search vendor "Miniorange"		Staff \/ Employee Business Directory For Active Directory Search vendor "Miniorange" for product "Staff \/ Employee Business Directory For Active Directory"				< 1.3 Search vendor "Miniorange" for product "Staff \/ Employee Business Directory For Active Directory" and version " < 1.3"		wordpress		Affected