Houzez <= 2.7.1 - Privilege Escalation

Incorrect Privilege Assignment
CVE CVE-2023-26540
CVSS Critical (9.8)
Publicly Published February 27, 2023
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Dave Jong
Description

The Houzez theme for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in versions up to, and including, 2.7.1. This is due to improper assignment of privileges on user management/registration that allows users to supply their own role via the houzez_change_user_role and houzez_register_user_with_membership AJAX actions. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to register as administrators on vulnerable sites.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Theme
Software Slug houzez (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.7.1
Patched Version
  • 2.7.2
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