WP User Frontend <= 3.5.28 - Privilege Escalation

Improper Privilege Management
CVE CVE-2021-24649
CVSS High (8.1)
Publicly Published October 31, 2022
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher AyeCode Ltd
Description

The WP User Frontend plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation due to the default user role checking on the process_registration function in versions up to, and including, 3.5.28 which accepts user supplied input via the urhidden value. This makes it possible for attackers, under certain circumstances, to register as administrators. This requires the attacker have access to the AUTH_KEY and AUTH_SALT values from wp-config.php.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wp-user-frontend (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 3.5.28
Patched Version
  • 3.5.29
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