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CVE-2024-10174: WP Project Manager – Task, team, and project management plugin featuring kanban board and gantt charts <= 2.6.13 - Insecure Direct Object Reference to Unauthenticated Authorization Bypass

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-11-13 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-639

Description

The WP Project Manager – Task, team, and project management plugin featuring kanban board and gantt charts plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in all versions up to, and including, 2.6.13 via the 'Abstract_Permission' class due to missing validation on the 'user_id' user controlled key. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to spoof their identity to that of an administrator and access all of the plugins REST routes.

Affected products

• wedevs Project Manager – AI Powered Project Management, Task Management, Kanban Board & Time Tracker: before 2.6.14 — fixed in 2.6.14

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: wedevs Project Manager – AI Powered Project Management, Task Management, Kanban Board & Time Tracker 2.6.14. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wedevs-project-manager/trunk/core/Permissions/Abstract_Permission.php#L32
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3185807/wedevs-project-manager/trunk/core/Permissions/Abstract_Permission.php
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/dea2d045-d3b4-4b55-8b4f-5baa82a18834?source=cve

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