CVE-2024-1170 Information

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 media file deletion due to a missing capability check on the handle_deleted_media function in all versions up to and including 2.8.7. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete arbitrary media files.

Reference

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/380c646c-fd95-408a-89eb-3e646768bbc5?source=cve https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/buddyforms/trunk/includes/functions.php#L1493 https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3046092/buddyforms/trunk?contextall=1&old=3031945&old_path=%2Fbuddyforms%2Ftrunk#file7