CVE-2024-8428

high

Description

The ForumWP – Forum & Discussion Board Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation via Insecure Direct Object Reference in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.2 via the submit_form_handler due to missing validation on the 'user_id' user controlled key. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to change the email address of administrative user accounts which can then be leveraged to reset the administrative users password and gain access to their account.

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b5818587-0a52-4734-8f75-263b4ab5020e?source=cve

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/forumwp/trunk/includes/frontend/class-actions-listener.php#L179

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2024-09-06

Updated: 2024-09-26

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High