ForumWP – Forum & Discussion Board Plugin: Privilege escalation or authentication bypass
ForumWP – Forum & Discussion Board Plugin is affected by privilege escalation or authentication bypass. Exploitation requires at least subscriber-level access. A successful request can grant permissions or access that the caller should not possess.
- Component
- ForumWP – Forum & Discussion Board Plugin
- Plugin slug
forumwp- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Sep 06, 2024
This CVE was published Sep 06, 2024 and is one of 6 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update ForumWP – Forum & Discussion Board Plugin to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
No confirmed safe version is listed. Consider a vendor-supported patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality while you assess the risk.
Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.
Technical description
The ForumWP – Forum & Discussion Board Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation via Insecure Direct Object Reference in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.2 via the submit_form_handler due to missing validation on the 'user_id' user controlled key. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to change the email address of administrative user accounts which can then be leveraged to reset the administrative users password and gain access to their account.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H