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CWE-862 (授权机制缺失) — Vulnerability Class 6904

6904 vulnerabilities classified as CWE-862 (授权机制缺失). AI Chinese analysis included.

CWE-862 represents a critical access control weakness where software fails to verify an actor’s permissions before granting access to resources or executing actions. Attackers typically exploit this flaw by manipulating requests to access sensitive data or perform privileged operations that should be restricted to authorized users. Without proper checks, malicious actors can bypass authentication mechanisms entirely, leading to unauthorized data exposure, modification, or system compromise. Developers mitigate this risk by implementing robust authorization logic at every entry point, ensuring that identity verification is coupled with strict permission validation. This involves checking user roles and access rights against the requested resource before processing any request. By integrating these checks into the application’s core architecture and utilizing established frameworks, teams can prevent unauthorized access and maintain the integrity of their systems against exploitation.

MITRE CWE Description
The product does not perform an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action.
Common Consequences (4)
Confidentiality Read Application Data, Read Files or Directories
An attacker could read sensitive data, either by reading the data directly from a data store that is not restricted, or by accessing insufficiently-protected, privileged functionality to read the data.
Integrity Modify Application Data, Modify Files or Directories
An attacker could modify sensitive data, either by writing the data directly to a data store that is not restricted, or by accessing insufficiently-protected, privileged functionality to write the data.
Access Control Gain Privileges or Assume Identity, Bypass Protection Mechanism
An attacker could gain privileges by modifying or reading critical data directly, or by accessing privileged functionality.
Availability DoS: Crash, Exit, or Restart, DoS: Resource Consumption (CPU), DoS: Resource Consumption (Memory), DoS: Resource Consumption (Other)
An attacker could gain unauthorized access to resources on the system and excessively consume those resources, leading to a denial of service.
Mitigations (5)
Architecture and Design Divide the product into anonymous, normal, privileged, and administrative areas. Reduce the attack surface by carefully mapping roles with data and functionality. Use role-based access control (RBAC) [REF-229] to enforce the roles at the appropriate boundaries. Note that this approach may not protect against horizontal authorization, i.e., it will not protect a user from attacking others with the …
Architecture and Design Ensure that access control checks are performed related to the business logic. These checks may be different than the access control checks that are applied to more generic resources such as files, connections, processes, memory, and database records. For example, a database may restrict access for medical records to a specific database user, but each record might only be intended to be accessible…
Architecture and Design Use a vetted library or framework that does not allow this weakness to occur or provides constructs that make this weakness easier to avoid. For example, consider using authorization frameworks such as the JAAS Authorization Framework [REF-233] and the OWASP ESAPI Access Control feature [REF-45].
Architecture and Design For web applications, make sure that the access control mechanism is enforced correctly at the server side on every page. Users should not be able to access any unauthorized functionality or information by simply requesting direct access to that page. One way to do this is to ensure that all pages containing sensitive information are not cached, and that all such pages restrict access to requests …
System Configuration, Installation Use the access control capabilities of your operating system and server environment and define your access control lists accordingly. Use a "default deny" policy when defining these ACLs.
Examples (2)
This function runs an arbitrary SQL query on a given database, returning the result of the query.
function runEmployeeQuery($dbName, $name){ mysql_select_db($dbName,$globalDbHandle) or die("Could not open Database".$dbName); //Use a prepared statement to avoid CWE-89 $preparedStatement = $globalDbHandle->prepare('SELECT * FROM employees WHERE name = :name'); $preparedStatement->execute(array(':name' => $name)); return $preparedStatement->fetchAll(); } /.../ $employeeRecord = runEmployeeQuery('EmployeeDB',$_GET['EmployeeName']);
Bad · PHP
The following program could be part of a bulletin board system that allows users to send private messages to each other. This program intends to authenticate the user before deciding whether a private message should be displayed. Assume that LookupMessageObject() ensures that the $id argument is numeric, constructs a filename based on that id, and reads the message details from that file. Also ass…
sub DisplayPrivateMessage { my($id) = @_; my $Message = LookupMessageObject($id); print "From: " . encodeHTML($Message->{from}) . "<br>\n"; print "Subject: " . encodeHTML($Message->{subject}) . "\n"; print "<hr>\n"; print "Body: " . encodeHTML($Message->{body}) . "\n"; } my $q = new CGI; # For purposes of this example, assume that CWE-309 and # CWE-523 do not apply. if (! AuthenticateUser($q->param('username'), $q->param('password'))) { ExitError("invalid username or password"); } my $id = $q->param('id'); DisplayPrivateMessage($id);
Bad · Perl
CVE ID Title CVSS Severity Published
CVE-2025-66137 WordPress Searcher for Elementor plugin <= 1.0.3 - Broken Access Control vulnerability — Searcher for Elementor 5.4 Medium 2026-01-22
CVE-2025-66139 WordPress Audier For Elementor plugin <= 1.0.9 - Broken Access Control vulnerability — Audier For Elementor 5.4 Medium 2026-01-22
CVE-2025-66136 WordPress Carter for Elementor plugin <= 1.0.2 - Broken Access Control vulnerability — Carter for Elementor 5.4 Medium 2026-01-22
CVE-2025-66138 WordPress Motionger for Elementor plugin <= 2.0.4 - Broken Access Control vulnerability — Motionger for Elementor 5.4 Medium 2026-01-22
CVE-2025-66140 WordPress Uper for Elementor plugin <= 1.0.5 - Broken Access Control vulnerability — Uper for Elementor 5.4 Medium 2026-01-22
CVE-2025-66135 WordPress Imager for Elementor plugin <= 2.0.4 - Broken Access Control vulnerability — Imager for Elementor 5.4 Medium 2026-01-22
CVE-2025-62754 WordPress Payment Gateway bKash for WC plugin <= 3.1.0 - Broken Access Control vulnerability — Payment Gateway bKash for WC 5.3 Medium 2026-01-22
CVE-2025-63018 WordPress Bard theme <= 2.229 - Broken Access Control vulnerability — Bard 4.3 Medium 2026-01-22
CVE-2025-62106 WordPress WP-CRM System plugin <= 3.4.5 - Broken Access Control vulnerability — WP-CRM System 5.4 Medium 2026-01-22
CVE-2025-54002 WordPress xSmart theme <= 1.2.9.4 - Broken Access Control vulnerability — xSmart 6.5 Medium 2026-01-22
CVE-2025-5805 WordPress Electron theme <= 1.8.2 - Broken Access Control vulnerability — Electron 6.5 Medium 2026-01-22
CVE-2025-49375 WordPress HomeLancer theme <= 1.0.1 - Broken Access Control vulnerability — HomeLancer 5.4 Medium 2026-01-22
CVE-2026-24042 Appsmith public apps can execute unpublished actions (viewMode confusion) — appsmith 9.4 Critical 2026-01-22
CVE-2026-1036 Photo Gallery by 10Web – Mobile-Friendly Image Gallery <= 1.8.36 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Arbitrary Comment Deletion — Photo Gallery by 10Web – Mobile-Friendly Image Gallery 5.3 Medium 2026-01-21
CVE-2026-23517 Fleet has an Access Control vulnerability in debug/pprof endpoints — fleet 6.5AI Medium AI 2026-01-21
CVE-2026-0554 NotificationX <= 3.1.11 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Contributor+) Analytics Reset — NotificationX – FOMO, Live Sales Notification, WooCommerce Sales Popup, GDPR, Social Proof, Announcement Banner & Floating Notification Bar 4.3 Medium 2026-01-20
CVE-2025-15347 Creator LMS – The LMS for Creators, Coaches, and Trainers <= 1.1.12 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Contributor+) Arbitrary Options Update — Creator LMS – Online Courses and eLearning Plugin 8.8 High 2026-01-20
CVE-2025-15043 The Events Calendar <= 6.15.13 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Data Migration Control — The Events Calendar 5.4 Medium 2026-01-20
CVE-2026-0548 Tutor LMS – eLearning and online course solution <= 3.9.4 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Limited Attachment Deletion — Tutor LMS – eLearning and online course solution 5.4 Medium 2026-01-20
CVE-2025-14798 LearnPress – WordPress LMS Plugin <= 4.3.2.4 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Sensitive User Information Disclosure via REST API — LearnPress – WordPress LMS Plugin for Create and Sell Online Courses 5.3 Medium 2026-01-20
CVE-2025-14351 Custom Fonts – Host Your Fonts Locally <= 2.1.16 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Font Deletion — Custom Fonts – Host Your Fonts Locally 5.3 Medium 2026-01-20
CVE-2025-14978 PeachPay — Payments & Express Checkout for WooCommerce (supports Stripe, PayPal, Square, Authorize.net) <= 1.119.8 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Order Status Modification — PeachPay — Payments & Express Checkout for WooCommerce (supports Stripe, PayPal, Square, Authorize.net, NMI) 5.3 Medium 2026-01-20
CVE-2025-15466 Image Photo Gallery Final Tiles Grid <= 3.6.9 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Contributor+) Arbitrary Gallery Management — Image Photo Gallery Final Tiles Grid 5.4 Medium 2026-01-19
CVE-2026-23875 CrawlChat's Discord Bot has a Knowledge Permission vulnerability — crawlchat 3.5AI Low AI 2026-01-19
CVE-2026-23721 OpenProject users with "View Members" permission in any project can view all Group memberships — openproject 4.3 Medium 2026-01-19
CVE-2025-14078 PAYGENT for WooCommerce <= 2.4.6 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Payment Callback Manipulation — PAYGENT for WooCommerce 5.3 Medium 2026-01-17
CVE-2025-12825 User Registration Using Contact Form 7 <= 2.5 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Information Exposure — User Registration Using Contact Form 7 5.3 Medium 2026-01-17
CVE-2025-14029 Community Events <= 1.5.6 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Arbitrary Event Approval via 'eventlist' Parameter — Community Events 5.3 Medium 2026-01-17
CVE-2025-12168 Phrase TMS Integration for WordPress <= 4.7.5 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Log Deletion — Phrase TMS Integration for WordPress 4.3 Medium 2026-01-17
CVE-2025-14463 Payment Button for PayPal <= 1.2.3.41 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Arbitrary Order Creation — Payment Button for PayPal 5.3 Medium 2026-01-17

Vulnerabilities classified as CWE-862 (授权机制缺失) represent 6904 CVEs. The CWE taxonomy describes the weakness; review individual CVEs for product-specific impact.