Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in RepairBuddy Plugin for WordPress
CVE-2024-12259

8.8HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor

WordPress
Status
Repairbuddy – Repair Shop Crm & Booking Plugin For WordPress
Vendor
CVE Published:
18 December 2024

What is CVE-2024-12259?

The RepairBuddy plugin for WordPress is exposed to a significant security weakness that enables authenticated users with subscriber-level access and above to escalate their privileges through inappropriate email address modification. The flaw arises from insufficient identity validation during the AJAX action 'wc_update_user_data', allowing attackers to change email addresses of any user, including administrators. This breach can lead to unauthorized account access through password resets, thus posing a severe risk to user data integrity and site security.

Affected Version(s)

RepairBuddy – Repair Shop CRM & Booking Plugin for WordPress 0 <= 3.8120

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id...
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&s...
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&s...

CVSS V3.1

Score:
8.8
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
High
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

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