An Incorrect Access Control vulnerability in the user management component of ZwiiCMS up to v13.6.07 allows a remote, authenticated attacker to escalate their privileges. By sending a specially crafted HTTP request, a low-privilege user can access and modify the profile data of any other user, including administrators.
The product does not restrict or incorrectly restricts access to a resource from an unauthorized actor.
Access control involves the use of several protection mechanisms such as:
When any mechanism is not applied or otherwise fails, attackers can compromise the security of the product by gaining privileges, reading sensitive information, executing commands, evading detection, etc. There are two distinct behaviors that can introduce access control weaknesses: