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CVE-2026-87792

moderate

Unauthenticated Authorization Bypass in Design Scuole Italia WordPress Theme

CVSS 4.0
8.7 high
EPSS
Published
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Modified
AI analysis

The Design Scuole Italia WordPress theme, a theme purpose-built for Italian school websites, contains multiple missing-authorization flaws (CWE-862) in its dsi_pdf_generator and dsi_csv_generator functions, resulting in sensitive-information exposure (CWE-200). An unauthenticated remote attacker can invoke these PDF/CSV export functions directly to retrieve restricted 'Circolare' (school circular/notice) content and data belonging to registered users without any credentials. Exploitation is further eased by an unauthenticated RSS feed at /circolare/feed/, which makes restricted circular content trivially harvestable in bulk. The issue is rated CVSS 4.0 8.7 (high) because it is network-exploitable with no privileges, no user interaction, and high confidentiality impact. No public proof of concept is known, the flaw is not in CISA's KEV catalog, and no exploitation in the wild has been reported.

What to do: Update the Design Scuole Italia theme to the latest available release as soon as a patched version is published, and verify with the maintainers which version fixes the dsi_pdf_generator/dsi_csv_generator flaws. Until then, block or require authentication for requests hitting the PDF/CSV generator endpoints and the /circolare/feed/ RSS feed (e.g., via a security plugin or web-server rules), and review access logs for unauthenticated access to these paths. Also audit whether restricted Circolare content or registered-user data has already been exported, and consider rotating user data if leaks are confirmed.

Affected
Design Scuole Italia project (Regione del Veneto) Design Scuole Italia (WordPress theme)
Estimated exposure
moderate≈1,000–5,000 sites (likely low thousands of Italian school websites) — The theme is a niche WordPress.org theme purpose-built for Italian school sites, and Italy's roughly 8,000 public schools (plus private institutions) form a natural upper bound on deployments, so a low-thousands installed base is a…

Order-of-magnitude estimate by the model from install counts, market share and public scan data it knows; verify before quoting.

Description

The "Design Scuole Italia" WordPress theme is affected by multiple Authorization Bypass vulnerabilities in the dsi_pdf_generator and dsi_csv_generator functions, allowing an unauthenticated attacker to access restricted "Circolare" content and registered users' data. An unauthenticated RSS feed at /circolare/feed/ further facilitates exploitation.

Ecosystems
WordPress
Weakness
CWE-200, CWE-862
Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

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