CVE-2024-9930 Information

Description

The Extensions by HocWP Team plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authentication bypass in versions up to and including 0.2.3.2. This is due to missing validation on the user being supplied in the ‘verify_email’ action. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to log in as any existing user on the site such as an administrator. The vulnerability is in the Account extension.

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/ca3775db-0722-4090-924e-81e38d5dce97?source=cve https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sb-core/trunk/ext/account.php?rev=2715527#L374

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