WordPress Hospital Doctor Directory Plugin Broken Access Control Vulnerability

A missing authorization vulnerability has been identified in the WordPress Hospital Doctor Directory plugin, specifically in versions through 1.3.9. This vulnerability allows unprivileged users to exploit incorrectly configured access control security levels, potentially leading to unauthorized actions that require higher privileges.

Impact

Exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an unprivileged user to perform actions reserved for higher privileged users, due to the lack of proper authorization checks.

Remediation

Patchstack has issued a mitigation rule to block attacks targeting this vulnerability. Users can activate this mitigation through Patchstack's services.