Real Estate 7 WordPress <= 3.5.1 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation to Administrator

Incorrect Privilege Assignment
CVE CVE-2024-13421
CVSS Critical (9.8)
Publicly Published February 11, 2025
Last Updated February 12, 2025
Researcher Lucio Sá
Description

The Real Estate 7 WordPress theme for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 3.5.1. This is due to the plugin not properly restricting the roles allowed to be selected during registration. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to register a new administrative user account.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Theme
Software Slug realestate-7 (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 3.5.1
Patched Version
  • 3.5.2
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