WP User Frontend <= 3.6.5 - Authenticated (Author+) Privilege Escalation

8.8
Improper Privilege Management
CVE CVE-2023-47682
CVSS 8.8 (High)
Publicly Published November 9, 2023
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Rafie Muhammad - Patchstack

Description

The WP User Frontend – Registration, User Profile, Membership, Content Restriction, User Directory, and Frontend Post Submission Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 3.6.5. This is due to the plugin not providing sufficient controls on the ability to supply a role on the registration form shortcode rendered via the registration_form function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with author-level access and above, to add a registration form to a page with the role set to administrator and then subsequently use the form to register as an administrator.

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Vulnerability Details for Registration, User Profile, Membership, Content Restriction, User Directory, and Frontend Post Submission – WP User Frontend

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wp-user-frontend (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 3.6.6, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 3.6.5
Patched Version
  • 3.6.6

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