Build App Online <= 1.0.22 - Account Takeover via Weak Password Reset Mechanism

Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password
CVE CVE-2023-7264
CVSS High (8.1)
Publicly Published December 27, 2023
Last Updated December 6, 2024
Researcher Ram
Description

The Build App Online plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to account takeover due to a weak password reset mechanism in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.22. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to reset the password of arbitrary users by guessing an 4-digit numeric reset code.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug build-app-online (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.0.22
Patched Version
  • 1.0.23
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