WP Video Robot <= 1.20.0 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation via User Meta Update

Improper Privilege Management
CVE CVE-2024-9192
CVSS High (8.8)
Publicly Published November 15, 2024
Last Updated November 16, 2024
Researcher Tonn
Description

The WordPress Video Robot - The Ultimate Video Importer plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation due to insufficient validation on user meta that can be updated in the wpvr_rate_request_result() function in all versions up to, and including, 1.20.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to update their user meta on a WordPress site. This can be leveraged to update their capabilities to that of an administrator.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wp-video-robot (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Affected Version
  • <= 1.20.0
Patched Version
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