CVE Alert: CVE-2024-8853
Vulnerability Summary: CVE-2024-8853
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’.
Affected Endpoints:
No affected endpoints listed.
Published Date:
9/20/2024, 8:15:11 AM
💀 CVSS Score:
Exploit Status:
Not ExploitedReferences:
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/webo-facto-connector/tags/1.40/WeboFacto/Sso.php#L78
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3153062/webo-facto-connector
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c1280ceb-9ce8-47fc-8fd3-6af80015dea9?source=cve
Recommended Action:
No proposed action available. Please refer to vendor documentation for updates.
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