Post Form – Registration Form – Profile Form for User Profiles – Frontend Content Forms for User Submissions (UGC) <= 2.8.7 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Media Deletion

8.2
Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2024-1170
CVSS 8.2 (High)
Publicly Published March 6, 2024
Last Updated March 7, 2024
Researcher Lucio Sá

Description

The Post Form – Registration Form – Profile Form for User Profiles – Frontend Content Forms for User Submissions (UGC) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized media file deletion due to a missing capability check on the handle_deleted_media function in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.7. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete arbitrary media files.

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Vulnerability Details for Post Form – Registration Form – Profile Form for User Profiles – Frontend Content Forms for User Submissions (UGC)

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug buddyforms (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 2.8.8, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 2.8.7
Patched Version
  • 2.8.8

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