WPGraphQL <= 0.2.3 - Administrative User Creation

9.8
Improper Privilege Management
CVE CVE-2019-9879
CVSS 9.8 (Critical)
Publicly Published May 8, 2019
Last Updated December 9, 2022
Researcher Simone Quatrini

Description

The WPGraphQL versions up to 0.2.3 for WordPress allows remote attackers to register a new user with admin privileges, whenever new user registrations are allowed. This is related to the registerUser mutation.

Wordfence blocked 351 attacks targeting this vulnerability in the past 24 hours.

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Vulnerability Details for WPGraphQL

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wp-graphql (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 0.3.0, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 0.2.3
Patched Version
  • 0.3.0

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