Pie Register - Basic <= 3.8.3.4 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Plugin Installation

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2024-6069
CVSS High (8.8)
Publicly Published July 8, 2024
Last Updated August 1, 2024
Researcher Lucio Sá
Description

The Registration Forms – User Registration Forms, Invitation-Based Registrations, Front-end User Profile, Login Form & Content Restriction plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized arbitrary plugin installation due to a missing capability check on the pieregister_install_addon function in all versions up to, and including, 3.8.3.4. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to install arbitrary plugins. As a result attackers might achieve code execution on the targeted server

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug pie-register (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 3.8.3.4
Patched Version
  • 3.8.3.5
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