RegistrationMagic – Custom Registration Forms, User Registration, Payment, and User Login <= 5.3.0.0 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2024-1991
CVSS High (8.8)
Publicly Published March 14, 2024
Last Updated April 9, 2024
Researcher Krzysztof Zając
Description

The RegistrationMagic – Custom Registration Forms, User Registration, Payment, and User Login plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation due to a missing capability check on the update_users_role() function in all versions up to, and including, 5.3.0.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to escalate their privileges to that of an administrator

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug custom-registration-form-builder-with-submission-manager (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 5.3.0.0
Patched Version
  • 5.3.1.0
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