CVE-2024-8853

CVSS V2 None CVSS V3 None

Description

The Webo-facto plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in versions up to, and including, 1.40 due to insufficient restriction on the 'doSsoAuthentification' function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to make themselves administrators by registering with a username that contains '-wfuser'.

Overview

CVE ID
CVE-2024-8853

Assigner
Wordfence

Vulnerability Status
PUBLISHED

Published Version
2024-09-20T07:33:35.851Z

Last Modified Date
2024-09-20T17:32:55.404Z

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/c1280ceb-9ce8-47fc-8fd3-6af80015dea9?source=cve
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/webo-facto-connector/tags/1.40/WeboFacto/Sso.php#L78
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3153062/webo-facto-connector

Sources

Source Name	Source URL
NIST	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-8853
MITRE	https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-8853

History

Created	Old Value	New Value	Data Type	Notes
2024-10-06 06:26:20				Added to TrackCVE