Miniorange OTP Verification with Firebase <= 3.6.0 - Privilege Escalation via Registration due to Administrator Default User Role Value

Incorrect Privilege Assignment
CVE CVE-2024-9863
CVSS Critical (9.8)
Publicly Published October 16, 2024
Last Updated October 23, 2024
Researcher István Márton
Description

The Miniorange OTP Verification with Firebase plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in versions up to, and including, 3.6.0 due to the insecure 'administrator' default value for the 'default_user_role' option. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to register an administrator user even if the registration form is disabled.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug miniorange-firebase-sms-otp-verification (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 3.6.0
Patched Version
  • 3.6.1
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