Frontend Admin by DynamiApps <= 3.19.4 - Improper Missing Encryption Exception Handling to Form Manipulation

Not Failing Securely ('Failing Open')
CVE CVE-2024-3729
CVSS Critical (9.8)
Publicly Published April 18, 2024
Last Updated May 2, 2024
Researcher István Márton
Description

The Frontend Admin by DynamiApps plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to improper missing encryption exception handling on the 'fea_encrypt' function in all versions up to, and including, 3.19.4. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to manipulate the user processing forms, which can be used to add and edit administrator user for privilege escalation, or to automatically log in users for authentication bypass, or manipulate the post processing form that can be used to inject arbitrary web scripts. This can only be exploited if the 'openssl' php extension is not loaded on the server.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug acf-frontend-form-element (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 3.19.4
Patched Version
  • 3.19.5
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