Orbit Fox by ThemeIsle <= 2.10.2 - Authenticated Privilege Escalation

Improper Privilege Management
CVE CVE-2021-24158
CVSS Critical (9.9)
Publicly Published November 24, 2020
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Chloe Chamberland
Description

Orbit Fox by ThemeIsle has a feature to add a registration form to both the Elementor and Beaver Builder page builders functionality. As part of the registration form, administrators can choose which role to set as the default for users upon registration. This field is hidden from view for lower-level users, however, they can still supply the user_role parameter to update the default role for registration.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug themeisle-companion (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.10.3
Patched Version
  • 2.10.3
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