CVE-2024-1693: SP Project & Document Manager <= 4.70 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Folder Name Update

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2024-05-14 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-639

Description

The SP Project & Document Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the cdm_save_category AJAX action in all versions up to, and including, 4.70. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to update arbitrary folder name that do not belong to them.

Affected products

Smartypants SP Project & Document Manager: through 4.70

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sp-client-document-manager/trunk/classes/ajax.php#L786
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/1951ad6c-17b5-44ae-85e2-376b99df742e?source=cve
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sp-client-document-manager/trunk/classes/ajax.php#L786
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/1951ad6c-17b5-44ae-85e2-376b99df742e?source=cve

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