Compliance Impact

The vulnerability involves missing authorization and broken access control, which could potentially lead to unauthorized access to sensitive data or functions within the Wired Impact Volunteer Management plugin.

Such unauthorized access issues may impact compliance with standards and regulations like GDPR and HIPAA, which require strict access controls to protect personal and sensitive information.

However, the vulnerability is rated with a low severity score (CVSS 5.3) and is considered unlikely to be exploited in a way that causes significant harm.

To maintain compliance, affected users should update to version 2.8.1 or later to mitigate the risk of unauthorized access.

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Executive Summary

CVE-2026-24997 is a Broken Access Control vulnerability found in the WordPress Wired Impact Volunteer Management Plugin versions up to and including 2.8.

The issue arises from missing authorization, authentication, or nonce token checks within certain plugin functions, which allows unauthenticated users to perform actions that should be restricted to higher-privileged users.

This means that users without proper permissions can exploit the vulnerability to access or manipulate data or functions they should not be able to.

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Impact Analysis

The vulnerability allows unauthenticated users to perform privileged actions, potentially leading to unauthorized access or modification of data within the Wired Impact Volunteer Management system.

However, the CVSS severity score is 5.3, indicating a low priority and low severity impact, and it is considered unlikely to be exploited in a way that causes significant harm.

Despite the low severity, it is important to update the plugin to version 2.8.1 or later to mitigate the risk.

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Detection Guidance

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Mitigation Strategies

The primary mitigation step is to update the Wired Impact Volunteer Management Plugin to version 2.8.1 or later, where the vulnerability is resolved.

Patchstack offers automated updates for vulnerable plugins to provide rapid protection, which can be utilized to ensure timely patching.

Since the vulnerability allows unauthenticated exploitation, timely patching is critical to prevent unauthorized access.

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