CVE-2024-8853 Information

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’.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

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

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

9.8