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GHSA-3F92-CWF9-RGVQ

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-09-16 14:37 – Updated: 2024-09-16 14:37

Details

The Post Form – Registration Form – Profile Form for User Profiles – Frontend Content Forms for User Submissions (UGC) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.11. This is due to plugin not properly restricting what users have access to set the default role on registration forms. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to create a registration form with a custom role that allows them to register as administrators.

Severity

8.8 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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CVE-2024-8246 (GCVE-0-2024-8246)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-09-14 03:19 – Updated: 2026-04-08 16:48

Title

Post Form – Registration Form – Profile Form for User Profiles – Frontend Content Forms for User Submissions (UGC) <= 2.8.11 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Privilege Escalation

Summary

Severity

8.8 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-09-16 19:08 UTC

CWE

CWE-269 - Improper Privilege Management

Assigner

Wordfence mitre root

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabil…
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3149…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
themekraft	Post Form – Registration Form – Profile Form for User Profiles – Frontend Content Forms for User Submissions (UGC)	Affected: 0 , ≤ 2.8.11 (semver)
themekraft	post_form_registration_form_profile_form_for_user_profiles_and_content_forms	Affected: 0 , ≤ 2.8.11 (custom) cpe:2.3:a:themekraft:post_form_registration_form_profile_form_for_user_profiles_and_content_forms::::::wordpress::*

Credits

wesley

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