CVE-2024-8247

CVSS V2 None CVSS V3 None

Description

The Newsletters plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 4.9.9.2. This is due to the plugin not restricting what user meta can be updated as screen options. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to escalate their privileges to that of an administrator. Please note that this only affects users with access to edit/update screen options, which means an administrator would need to grant lower privilege users with access to the Sent & Draft Emails page of the plugin in order for this to be exploited.

Overview

CVE ID
CVE-2024-8247

Assigner
Wordfence

Vulnerability Status
PUBLISHED

Published Version
2024-09-06T03:30:40.728Z

Last Modified Date
2024-09-06T03:30:40.728Z

Weakness Enumerations

CWE	URL
CWE-269	http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/269.html

References

Reference URL	Reference Tags
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2577102f-6355-4483-bd3d-1948497cb843?source=cve
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/newsletters-lite/tags/4.9.9.1/wp-mailinglist.php#L3279
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3146287%40newsletters-lite&new=3146287%40newsletters-lite&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=

Sources

Source Name	Source URL
NIST	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-8247
MITRE	https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-8247

History

Created	Old Value	New Value	Data Type	Notes
2024-09-06 13:02:38				Added to TrackCVE