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CVE-2024-13752: WP Project Manager <= 2.6.17 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Limited Arbitrary Options Update

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-02-15 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

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.

Affected products

• wedevs Project Manager – AI Powered Project Management, Task Management, Kanban Board & Time Tracker: before 2.6.18 — fixed in 2.6.18

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: wedevs Project Manager – AI Powered Project Management, Task Management, Kanban Board & Time Tracker 2.6.18. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wedevs-project-manager/trunk/core/Upgrades/Upgrade_2_0.php#L255
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wedevs-project-manager/trunk/core/Upgrades/Upgrade_2_3.php#L151
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3239348/
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=%2Fwedevs-project-manager%2Ftags%2F2.6.17%2Fsrc%2FSettings%2FControllers%2FSettings_Controller.php&old=3213295&new_path=%2Fwedevs-project-manager%2Ftags%2F2.6.18%2Fsrc%2FSettings%2FControllers%2FSettings_Controller.php&new=3240807&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=%2Fwedevs-project-manager%2Ftrunk%2Froutes%2Fsettings.php&old=3213295&new_path=%2Fwedevs-project-manager%2Ftrunk%2Froutes%2Fsettings.php&new=3240806&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/wedevs-project-manager/#developers
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/bd54a50b-13ce-43ce-bce1-8fe132abc07e?source=cve

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