Record summary

CVE-2024-8428 has a selected CVSS score of 8.8 (high).

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.

Description source: CVE List

Exploitation context

CISA SSVC decision

ExploitationNone
AutomatableNo
Technical impactTotal

CISA Coordinator · SSVC 2.0.3 · Evaluated Sep 6, 2024 · Source: CVE List

Affected products and versions

2
ProductSourceVersion rangeStatus

Default status: unknown

CVE ListThrough 2.0.2affected

Default status: unaffected

CVE ListThrough 2.0.2affected

References

4