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CVE-2023-4505

MEDIUM 4.9 CVSS 3.1
Published
September 27, 2023
Last modified
June 17, 2026
NVD status
Modified
Reported by
security@wordfence.com
Weakness
CWE-306
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Description

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.

Affected WordPress components

  • Staff/Employee Business Directory for Active Directory Plugin · ldap-ad-staff-employee-directory-search
    Confirmed match Active
    Up to and including 1.2.3
    View on WordPress.org

A confirmed match is backed by the plugin or theme slug. A possible match is based on the product name only and should be verified.

Affected products and versions

  • cyberlord92 Staff/Employee Business Directory for Active Directory — Up to and including 1.2.3
  • miniorange staff_\/_employee_business_directory_for_active_directory — Before 1.3

References

  • medium.com https://medium.com/%40cybertrinchera/cve-2023-4506-cve-2023-4505-ldap-passback-on-miniorange-plugins-ca7328c84313 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
  • plugins.trac.wordpress.org https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2973020/
  • wordpress.org https://wordpress.org/plugins/ldap-ad-staff-employee-directory-search/ Product
  • www.wordfence.com https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/1ea40b96-4693-4f98-8e6e-2ed8186cedd8?source=cve Third Party Advisory
  • nvd.nist.gov Official NVD record