DHVC Form <= 2.4.7 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation

Incorrect Privilege Assignment
CVE CVE-2024-8420
CVSS Critical (9.8)
Publicly Published February 27, 2025
Last Updated February 28, 2025
Researcher Tonn
Description

The DHVC Form plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.7. This is due to the plugin allowing a user to supply the 'role' field when registering. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to register as an administrator on sites.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug dhvc-form (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.4.7
Patched Version
  • 2.4.8
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