CVE-2023-47682

WP User Frontend <= 3.6.5 - Authenticated (Author+) Privilege Escalation

highImproper Privilege Management
8.8
CVSS Score
8.8
CVSS Score
high
Severity
3.6.6
Patched in
75d
Time to patch

Description

The WP User Frontend – Registration, User Profile, Membership, Content Restriction, User Directory, and Frontend Post Submission Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 3.6.5. This is due to the plugin not providing sufficient controls on the ability to supply a role on the registration form shortcode rendered via the registration_form function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with author-level access and above, to add a registration form to a page with the role set to administrator and then subsequently use the form to register as an administrator.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
High
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability

Technical Details

Affected versions<=3.6.5
PublishedNovember 9, 2023
Last updatedJanuary 22, 2024
Affected pluginwp-user-frontend

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