ForumWP – Forum & Discussion Board Plugin <= 2.0.2 - Insecure Direct Object Reference to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation via Account Takeover

Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
CVE CVE-2024-8428
CVSS High (8.8)
Publicly Published September 6, 2024
Last Updated October 3, 2024
Researcher wesley (wcraft)
Description

The ForumWP – Forum & Discussion Board Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation via Insecure Direct Object Reference in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.2 via the submit_form_handler due to missing validation on the 'user_id' user controlled key. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to change the email address of administrative user accounts which can then be leveraged to reset the administrative users password and gain access to their account.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug forumwp (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.0.2
Patched Version
  • 2.1.0
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