CVE-2026-25876
📋 TL;DR
PlaciPy placement management system version 1.0.0 has a missing object-level authorization vulnerability that allows authenticated users to access assessment results they shouldn't have permission to view. This affects all educational institutions using PlaciPy 1.0.0 for student placement management. The vulnerability enables unauthorized data access through the results API endpoints.
💻 Affected Systems
- PlaciPy Placement Management System
📦 What is this software?
Placipy by Prasklatechnology
⚠️ Risk & Real-World Impact
Worst Case
Malicious authenticated user could access all student assessment results across the entire institution, potentially exposing sensitive academic performance data and violating privacy regulations.
Likely Case
Authenticated users (students, faculty, or staff) could view assessment results for other students or assessments they shouldn't have access to, leading to data privacy violations.
If Mitigated
With proper authorization checks, users would only see results they're explicitly authorized to access based on their role and permissions.
🎯 Exploit Status
Exploitation requires authenticated access but is straightforward once authenticated. Attackers can manipulate API requests to access unauthorized data.
🛠️ Fix & Mitigation
✅ Official Fix
Patch Version: Check GitHub advisory for latest patched version
Vendor Advisory: https://github.com/Praskla-Technology/assessment-placipy/security/advisories/GHSA-w238-w4mg-j357
Restart Required: Yes
Instructions:
1. Review the GitHub security advisory
2. Update to the latest patched version of PlaciPy
3. Restart the PlaciPy application
4. Verify authorization checks are properly implemented
🔧 Temporary Workarounds
Implement API Gateway Authorization
allAdd authorization middleware at the API gateway level to validate user permissions before routing to results endpoints
Temporary Access Restriction
allRestrict access to results API endpoints to only authorized administrative users until patch is applied
🧯 If You Can't Patch
- Implement strict network segmentation to isolate PlaciPy from general user access
- Deploy a web application firewall (WAF) with custom rules to detect and block unauthorized API requests to results endpoints
🔍 How to Verify
Check if Vulnerable:
Test authenticated API requests to results endpoints with different user accounts to see if authorization checks are properly enforcedCheck Version:
Check package.json or application version endpoint for PlaciPy versionVerify Fix Applied:
Verify that authenticated users can only access results they're authorized to view based on their role and permissions📡 Detection & Monitoring
Log Indicators:
- Multiple unauthorized access attempts to results API endpoints
- User accessing results for assessments they shouldn't have permissions for
- Unusual pattern of results API calls from single user
Network Indicators:
- High volume of GET/POST requests to /api/results endpoints
- Requests to results endpoints with different user IDs or assessment IDs
SIEM Query:
source="placipy" AND (uri_path="/api/results" OR uri_path="/api/assessments/*/results") AND user_id!=authorized_user_id