Vulnerability · Published Mar 13, 2024 · Assigned by Wordfence
CVE-2024-1158Post Form – Registration Form – Profile Form for User Profiles – Frontend Content Forms for User Submissions (UGC) <= 2.8.7 - Missing Authorization
Medium 4.3
In plain English
A medium-severity missing authorization in Post Form – Registration Form – Profile Form for User Profiles – Frontend Content Forms for User Submissions (UGC) from themekraft. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.5% (higher than 43% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official 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 modification of data due to a missing capability check on the buddyforms_new_page function in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.7. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber access or higher, to create pages with arbitrary titles. These pages are published.
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| themekraft | Post Form – Registration Form – Profile Form for User Profiles – Frontend Content Forms for User Submissions (UGC) | 0 – through 2.8.7 |
Weakness: CWE-862 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
References
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/198cb3bb-73fe-45ae-b8e0-b7ee8dda9547?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/buddyforms/trunk/includes/admin/admin-ajax.php?rev=2820257#L80
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=3046092%40buddyforms%2Ftrunk&old=3031945%40buddyforms%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=