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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2024-8246

Change History

New CVE Received from Wordfence 9/14/2024 12:15:04 AM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Description

								
							
							
						
The Post Form – Registration Form – Profile Form for User Profiles – Frontend Content Forms for User Submissions (UGC) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.11. This is due to plugin not properly restricting what users have access to set the default role on registration forms. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to create a registration form with a custom role that allows them to register as administrators.
Added CVSS V3.1

								
							
							
						
Wordfence AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Added CWE

								
							
							
						
Wordfence CWE-269
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
Wordfence https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3149760/buddyforms/trunk/includes/admin/form-builder/meta-boxes/metabox-registration.php [No types assigned]
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
Wordfence https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/40760f60-b81a-447b-a2c8-83c7666ce410?source=cve [No types assigned]