Missing authorization in alejo30 Alba Board
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Security bypass
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- Low · None · None
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-862.
Summary
The Alba Board plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in all versions up to, and including, 2.1.3. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying that a user is authorized to perform an action. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to access arbitrary private alba_card post data, including title, description, assignee, due date, tags, and comments, that is intended to be restricted to Administrators and Editors. The handler is registered via the wp_ajax_nopriv_ hook and its nonce is exposed to all site visitors through wp_localize_script on pages containing the [alba_board] shortcode, making this exploitable by unauthenticated users who can access any such page.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-7523
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-rw36-f5j3-hj4c
References
Other 8
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/efe57241-2bb3-41d1-8638-b69ceaff0b4f?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/alba-board/trunk/includes/ajax-card-details.php#L12
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/alba-board/tags/2.1.0/includes/ajax-card-details.php#L12
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/alba-board/trunk/includes/ajax-card-details.php#L20
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/alba-board/tags/2.1.0/includes/ajax-card-details.php#L20
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/alba-board/tags/1.1.0/includes/ajax-card-details.php#L12
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/alba-board/tags/1.1.0/includes/ajax-card-details.php#L20
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3551180%40alba-board&new=3551180%40alba-board&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
Sources
- CVE-2026-7523 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-7523 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-rw36-f5j3-hj4c · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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