CVE-2024-8121

CVSS V2 None CVSS V3 None
Description
The The Ultimate WordPress Toolkit – WP Extended plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of user names due to a missing capability check on the wpext_change_admin_name() function in all versions up to, and including, 3.0.8. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to change an admin's username to a username of their liking as long as the default 'admin' was used.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2024-8121
  • Assigner
  • Wordfence
  • Vulnerability Status
  • PUBLISHED
  • Published Version
  • 2024-09-04T06:49:06.414Z
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2024-09-04T13:16:31.851Z
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-862 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/862.html
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f3d08ac9-22f7-45f4-9896-05b90f5fce64?source=cve
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wpextended/trunk/includes/modules/core_extensions/wpext_block_user_name_admin/wpext_block_user_name_admin.php#L49
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=3145430%40wpextended%2Ftrunk&old=3134345%40wpextended%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-8121
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-8121
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2024-09-05 13:04:33 Added to TrackCVE