Description
The Post Form – Registration Form – Profile Form for User Profiles – Frontend Content Forms for User Submissions (UGC) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.11. This is due to plugin not properly restricting what users have access to set the default role on registration forms. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to create a registration form with a custom role that allows them to register as administrators.
References (2)
Core 2
Scores
CVSS v3
8.8
EPSS
0.0042
EPSS Percentile
33.4%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
total
Details
CWE
CWE-269
Status
published
Products (2)
themekraft/buddyforms
< 2.8.12
themekraft/Post Form – Registration Form – Profile Form for User Profiles – Frontend Content Forms for User Submissions (UGC)
< 2.8.11
Published
Sep 14, 2024
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026