Post Form – Registration Form – Profile Form for User Profiles – Frontend Content Forms for User Submissions (UGC) <= 2.8.11 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Privilege Escalation

Improper Privilege Management
CVE CVE-2024-8246
CVSS High (8.8)
Publicly Published September 13, 2024
Last Updated September 14, 2024
Researcher wesley (wcraft)
Description

The Post Form – Registration Form – Profile Form for User Profiles – Frontend Content Forms for User Submissions (UGC) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.11. This is due to plugin not properly restricting what users have access to set the default role on registration forms. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to create a registration form with a custom role that allows them to register as administrators.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug buddyforms (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.8.11
Patched Version
  • 2.8.12
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