CVE-2024-8428

HIGH

ForumWP - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

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