Token Login <= 1.0.3 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2024-50488
CVSS High (8.8)
Publicly Published October 25, 2024
Last Updated October 31, 2024
Researcher stealthcopter
Description

The Auto Login using a secure tokenized url. Role wise login restriction. plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via account takeover in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.3. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying if a user has permissions to generate a login token for other users. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to log in as other using including administrators.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug token-login (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Affected Version
  • <= 1.0.3
Patched Version
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