WPGYM <= 67.1.0 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation

Improper Privilege Management
CVE CVE-2024-9941
CVSS High (8.8)
Publicly Published November 22, 2024
Last Updated November 23, 2024
Researcher Tonn
Description

The WPGYM - Wordpress Gym Management System plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation due to a missing capability check on the MJ_gmgt_add_staff_member() function in all versions up to, and including, 67.1.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to create new user accounts with the administrator role.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug gym-management (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 67.1.0
Patched Version
  • 67.2.0
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