CRM WordPress Plugin – RepairBuddy <= 3.8120 - Missing Authorization to Account Takeover/Privilege Escalation

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2024-12259
CVSS High (8.8)
Publicly Published December 17, 2024
Last Updated December 18, 2024
Researcher Thanh Nam Tran
Description

The CRM WordPress Plugin – RepairBuddy plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via account takeover in all versions up to, and including, 3.8120. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a user's identity prior to updating their email through the wc_update_user_data AJAX action. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to change arbitrary user's email addresses, including administrators, and leverage that to reset the user's password and gain access to their account.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug computer-repair-shop (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 3.8120
Patched Version
  • 3.8122
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