Access violation vulnerability in System Dashboard 2.8.7

The System Dashboard plugin for WordPress contains a vulnerability that allows unauthorized access to data. This vulnerability is present in all versions of the plugin up to and including version 2.8.7. With this vulnerability, anyone with a subscriber-level account or higher can access potentially sensitive information. This vulnerability exists because the plugin failed to check if the user was authorized to access the data via the sd_option_value() function hooked via an AJAX action.

Detected in:

System Dashboard open vulnerable versions: >= * <= 2.8.7

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