WordPress Social Login and Register (Discord, Google, Twitter, LinkedIn) <= 7.6.6 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation

Improper Privilege Management
CVE CVE-2023-47683
CVSS High (8.8)
Publicly Published November 9, 2023
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Rafie Muhammad
Description

The WordPress Social Login and Register (Discord, Google, Twitter, LinkedIn) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 7.6.6. This is due to the plugin improperly restricting user meta values that can be updated and allowing users to control a user role update during a social login through the custom registration form. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to escalate their privileges to that of an administrator. We believe that this vulnerability requires the Custom Registration Add-on to be enabled, however, this is simply based on our assessment with the limited information available.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug miniorange-login-openid (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 7.6.6
Patched Version
  • 7.6.7
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