CVE-2024-8247

The Newsletters plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 4.9.9.2. This is due to the plugin not restricting what user meta can be updated as screen options. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to escalate their privileges to that of an administrator. Please note that this only affects users with access to edit/update screen options, which means an administrator would need to grant lower privilege users with access to the Sent & Draft Emails page of the plugin in order for this to be exploited.

CVSS v3 8.8 HIGH

8.8^/10

CVSS v3 : HIGH

Vector :

Exploitability : 2.8 / Impact : 5.9

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required LOW

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/newsletters-lite/tags/4.9.9.1/wp-mailinglist.php#L3279	Product
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3146287%40newsletters-lite&new=3146287%40newsletters-lite&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=	Patch
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2577102f-6355-4483-bd3d-1948497cb843?source=cve	Third Party Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:tribulant:newsletters:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2024-09-06 04:15

Updated : 2024-09-26 21:49

NVD link : CVE-2024-8247

Mitre link : CVE-2024-8247

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2024-8247

JSON object : View

Products Affected

tribulant

newsletters

CWE

CWE-269

Improper Privilege Management

NVD-CWE-noinfo

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