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GHSA-MJCH-V7J4-5XMP

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2023-09-27 15:30 – Updated: 2026-04-08 18:32

Details

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.

Severity

2.2 (Low)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

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  "modified": "2026-04-08T18:32:18Z",
  "published": "2023-09-27T15:30:39Z",
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    },
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      "type": "WEB",
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    },
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    },
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      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/1ea40b96-4693-4f98-8e6e-2ed8186cedd8?source=cve"
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CVE-2023-4505 (GCVE-0-2023-4505)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-09-26 01:51 – Updated: 2026-04-08 16:40

Title

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

Summary

Severity

2.2 (Low)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

CWE

CWE-306 - Missing Authentication for Critical Function

Assigner

Wordfence

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabil…
https://wordpress.org/plugins/ldap-ad-staff-emplo…
https://medium.com/%40cybertrinchera/cve-2023-450…
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2973020/

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
cyberlord92	Staff/Employee Business Directory for Active Directory	Affected: 0 , ≤ 1.2.3 (semver)

Credits

Pedro José Navas Pérez

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Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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GHSA-MJCH-V7J4-5XMP

CVE-2023-4505 (GCVE-0-2023-4505)

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