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.
References (3)
Core 3
Core References
Scores
CVSS v3
8.8
EPSS
0.0020
EPSS Percentile
41.8%
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-639
Status
published
Products (2)
ultimatemember/forumwp
< 2.0.2
ultimatemember/ForumWP – Forum & Discussion Board
< 2.0.2
Published
Sep 06, 2024
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026