Zephyr Project Manager <= 3.3.97 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation via User Meta Update

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2024-37484
CVSS High (8.8)
Publicly Published July 4, 2024
Last Updated July 11, 2024
Researcher shaman0x01
Description

The Zephyr Project Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 3.3.97. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying user meta updated through the update_user_meta function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to update their user meta which can be leveraged to update their capabilities to gain administrator access.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug zephyr-project-manager (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 3.3.97
Patched Version
  • 3.3.99
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