Potential Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in The Post Form Plugin
CVE-2024-8246

8.8HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor

WordPress
Status
Post Form – Registration Form – Profile Form For User Profiles – Frontend Content Forms For User Submissions (ugc)
Vendor
CVE Published:
14 September 2024

What is CVE-2024-8246?

The Post Form – Registration Form – Profile Form for User Profiles – Frontend Content Forms for User Submissions (UGC) plugin for WordPress is prone to a vulnerability allowing privilege escalation due to insufficient access restrictions on user roles during registration. Authenticated attackers with contributor-level access or higher can exploit this weakness by creating a custom registration form that designates them as administrators, thereby gaining higher-level permissions within the WordPress site.

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Affected Version(s)

Post Form – Registration Form – Profile Form for User Profiles – Frontend Content Forms for User Submissions (UGC) * <= 2.8.11

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id...
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3149760/budd...

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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