CVE-2024-33596
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedMissing Authorization vulnerability in Five Star Plugins Five Star Restaurant Reservations.This issue affects Five Star Restaurant Reservations: from n/a through 2.6.16.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · moderate confidenceMissing Authorization vulnerability in the Five Star Restaurant Reservations WordPress plugin allows authenticated users to potentially access or perform actions outside their intended permission level. This type of vulnerability typically enables lower-privileged users to modify reservation data or access administrative functions they should not have access to.
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CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- None
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- None
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Check installed plugin versionAccess WordPress admin dashboard, navigate to Plugins section, locate Five Star Restaurant Reservations, and note the installed version number. Alternatively, inspect the plugin's main PHP file header for the 'Version' tag.Affected if Installed version is earlier than 2.6.17
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Verify WordPress user registration is enabledIn wp-admin, go to Settings > General and check if 'Membership' > 'Anyone can register' is enabled. Also check if the site allows user sign-ups through other means.Affected if User registration is enabled, allowing creation of accounts that could exploit the authorization flaw
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Inspect user roles with reservation-related capabilitiesIn wp-admin, go to Users > Users and review which roles exist. Check if low-privileged roles (Subscriber, Customer) have access to reservation management capabilities that should be restricted to administrators.Affected if Non-administrator roles exist and have been granted permissions beyond their intended level for reservation data
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Check for unauthorized reservation modificationsReview reservation data in the plugin's admin panel. Look for reservations created or modified by users with Subscriber, Customer, or other low-privileged roles who should not have such access.Affected if Reservation records show modifications by users lacking administrative privileges, indicating the vulnerability may have been exploited
The environment is affected if Five Star Restaurant Reservations is installed at a version earlier than 2.6.17 and the site permits user registrations, allowing authenticated users to potentially exploit missing authorization controls on reservation data.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataUpdate Five Star Restaurant Reservations to version 2.6.17 or later which contains the authorization fix. Review user roles and permissions after updating to ensure proper access controls are functioning.
- Consultation2.0 h
- Implementation1.0 h
- Testing3.0 h
- Review / QA2.0 h
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- A config change or rule that shut the vector down
- A gotcha in the upgrade path that cost you an afternoon
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