BA Book Everything <= 1.6.20 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary User Password Reset

Unverified Password Change
CVE CVE-2024-8794
CVSS Medium (5.3)
Publicly Published September 23, 2024
Last Updated September 24, 2024
Researcher wesley (wcraft)
Description

The BA Book Everything plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary password reset in all versions up to, and including, 1.6.20. This is due to the reset_user_password() function not verifying a user's identity prior to setting a password. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to reset any user's passwords, including administrators. It's important to note that the attacker will not have access to the generated password, therefore, privilege escalation is not possible.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug ba-book-everything (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.6.20
Patched Version
  • 1.6.21
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