Post Form – Registration Form – Profile Form for User Profiles – Frontend Content Forms for User Submissions (UGC) <= 2.8.7 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Media Upload

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2024-1169
CVSS High (7.5)
Publicly Published March 6, 2024
Last Updated March 7, 2024
Researcher Lucio Sá
Description

The Post Form – Registration Form – Profile Form for User Profiles – Frontend Content Forms for User Submissions (UGC) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized media upload due to a missing capability check on the buddyforms_upload_handle_dropped_media function in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.7. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to upload media files.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug buddyforms (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.8.7
Patched Version
  • 2.8.8
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