CVE-2024-9215

CVSS V2 None CVSS V3 None

Description

The Co-Authors, Multiple Authors and Guest Authors in an Author Box with PublishPress Authors plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference to Privilege Escalation/Account Takeover in all versions up to, and including, 4.7.1 via the action_edited_author() due to missing validation on the 'authors-user_id' user controlled key. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Author-level access and above, to update arbitrary user accounts email addresses, including administrators, which can then be leveraged to reset that user's account password and gain access.

Overview

CVE ID
CVE-2024-9215

Assigner
Wordfence

Vulnerability Status
PUBLISHED

Published Version
2024-10-17T02:06:04.689Z

Last Modified Date
2024-10-17T02:06:04.689Z

Weakness Enumerations

CWE	URL
CWE-639	http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/639.html

References

Reference URL	Reference Tags
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d0506137-82e3-4988-9b23-370465a866c0?source=cve
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/publishpress-authors/tags/4.7.1/src/core/Classes/Author_Editor.php#L594
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3169244%40publishpress-authors&new=3169244%40publishpress-authors&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=#file7

Sources

Source Name	Source URL
NIST	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-9215
MITRE	https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-9215

History

Created	Old Value	New Value	Data Type	Notes
2024-10-17 13:32:33				Added to TrackCVE