CVE-2024-8253 (GCVE-0-2024-8253)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-09-11 03:31
Modified
2024-09-11 18:56
Severity ?
8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-266 - Incorrect Privilege Assignment
Summary
The Post Grid and Gutenberg Blocks plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions 2.2.87 to 2.2.90. This is due to the plugin not properly restricting what user meta values can be updated and ensuring a form is active. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to update their user meta to become an administrator.
References
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/post-grid/trunk/includes/blocks/form-wrap/functions.php#L3032Product
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3130155/post-grid/tags/2.2.87/includes/blocks/form-wrap/functions.phpPatch
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3146752/post-grid/tags/2.2.91/includes/blocks/form-wrap/functions.phpPatch
security@wordfence.comhttps://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f5f18cae-b7f8-4afd-adfa-c616c63f9419?source=cveThird Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
pickplugins Post Grid and Gutenberg Blocks Version: 2.2.87   ≤ 2.2.90
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