CVE-2024-8853

Published Sep 20, 2024

Last updated 2 months ago

CVSS critical 9.8

Overview

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'.
Source: security@wordfence.com
NVD status: Analyzed

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type: Primary
Base score: 9.8
Impact score: 5.9
Exploitability score: 3.9
Vector string: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Severity: CRITICAL

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: NVD-CWE-noinfo
security@wordfence.com: CWE-269

Hype score: Not currently trending

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:medialibs:webo-facto:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "950849A5-AADE-4DB0-98D0-27F7001051BA",
            "versionEndExcluding": "1.41"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References