CVE-2024-8428

The ForumWP – Forum & Discussion Board Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation via Insecure Direct Object Reference in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.2 via the submit_form_handler due to missing validation on the 'user_id' user controlled key. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to change the email address of administrative user accounts which can then be leveraged to reset the administrative users password and gain access to their account.

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/forumwp/trunk/includes/frontend/class-actions-listener.php#L179	Product
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b5818587-0a52-4734-8f75-263b4ab5020e?source=cve	Third Party Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:ultimatemember:forumwp:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2024-09-06 14:15

Updated : 2024-09-26 21:58

NVD link : CVE-2024-8428

Mitre link : CVE-2024-8428

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2024-8428

JSON object : View

Products Affected

ultimatemember

forumwp

CWE

CWE-639

Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key

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