Homey Login Register <= 2.4.0 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation in homey_register

9.8
Improper Privilege Management
CVE CVE-2024-11951
CVSS 9.8 (Critical)
Publicly Published March 4, 2025
Last Updated March 5, 2025
Researcher Tonn

Description

The Homey Login Register plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.0. This is due to the plugin allowing users who are registering new accounts to set their own role. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to gain elevated privileges by creating an account with the administrator role.

Wordfence blocked 741 attacks targeting this vulnerability in the past 24 hours.

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Vulnerability Details for Homey Login Register

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug homey-login-register
Patched? No
Remediation No known patch available. Please review the vulnerability's details in depth and employ mitigations based on your organization's risk tolerance. It may be best to uninstall the affected software and find a replacement.
Affected Version
  • <= 2.4.0

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