CVE-2024-8268 Information

Description

The Frontend Dashboard plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized code execution due to insufficient filtering on callable methods/functions via the ajax_request() function in all versions up to and including 2.2.4. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with subscriber-level access and above to call arbitrary functions that can be leverage for privilege escalation by changing user’s passwords.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7d66694a-c99f-44f8-8004-1a47ad9f9250?source=cve https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/frontend-dashboard/tags/2.2.4/route/class-fed-request.php#L29 https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3147868/frontend-dashboard/tags/2.2.5/route/class-fed-request.php?old=3048034&old_path=frontend-dashboard%2Ftags%2F2.2.4%2Froute%2Fclass-fed-request.php

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

8.8