AdForest <= 5.1.6 - Privilege Escalation via Password Reset/Account Takeover

Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password
CVE CVE-2024-11350
CVSS Critical (9.8)
Publicly Published December 20, 2024
Last Updated January 8, 2025
Researcher Tonn
Description

The AdForest theme for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via account takeover in all versions up to, and including, 5.1.6. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a user's identity prior to updating their password through the adforest_reset_password() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to change arbitrary user's passwords, including administrators, and leverage that to gain access to their account.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Theme
Software Slug adforest (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 5.1.6
Patched Version
  • 5.1.7
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