Adding drop down roles in registration <= 1.1 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation

Incorrect Privilege Assignment
CVE CVE-2024-49217
CVSS Critical (9.8)
Publicly Published October 14, 2024
Last Updated October 18, 2024
Researcher João Pedro Soares de Alcântara
Description

The Adding drop down roles in registration plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 1.1. This is due to the plugin not properly restricting what roles a user can register as. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to register as an administrator.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug user-drop-down-roles-in-registration (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Affected Version
  • <= 1.1
Patched Version
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