Frontend Dashboard <= 2.2.4 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Function Call

Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
CVE CVE-2024-8268
CVSS High (8.8)
Publicly Published September 9, 2024
Last Updated September 10, 2024
Researcher Lucio Sá
Description

The Frontend Dashboard plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized code execution due to insufficient filtering on callable methods/functions via the ajax_request() function in all versions up to, and including, 2.2.4. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to call arbitrary functions that can be leverage for privilege escalation by changing user's passwords.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug frontend-dashboard (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.2.4
Patched Version
  • 2.2.5
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