Description
BookWyrm through 0.9.1 contains an authorization bypass vulnerability in the edit_readthrough function that allows authenticated users to modify other users' reading records. Attackers can exploit sequential ReadThrough IDs to overwrite arbitrary users' start dates, finish dates, progress, and progress mode, affecting reading statistics and exported data.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
bookwyrm-social bookwyrm
Default version status: unaffected
0 to ≤ 0.9.1affected
pkg:github/bookwyrm-social/bookwyrmReferences
- https://github.com/geo-chen/oss/blob/main/bookwyrm.md#finding-3-authenticated-idor-in-edit-readthrough-allows-tampering-with-other-users-reading-progress ↗
- https://github.com/bookwyrm-social/bookwyrm/blob/v0.9.1/bookwyrm/views/status.py ↗
- https://github.com/bookwyrm-social/bookwyrm ↗
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/bookwyrm-through-0.9.1-insecure-direct-object-reference-in-edit-readthrough-allows-tampering-with-other-users-reading-records ↗