CVE-2024-12171

Published: Feb 1, 2025Modified: Feb 24, 2025

8.8

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploitability: 2.8 / Impact: 5.9

Source: security@wordfence.com (Secondary)

Description

The ELEX WordPress HelpDesk & Customer Ticketing System plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation due to a missing capability check on the 'eh_crm_agent_add_user' AJAX action in all versions up to, and including, 3.2.6. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to create new administrative user accounts.

Affected (1)

Products: Elula: Wsdesk

1 product

Configuration A

1 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Elula Wsdesk	Before 3.2.7

Related CWEs

Missing Authorization

The product does not perform an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action.

References (3)

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3227859/elex-helpdesk-customer-support-ticket-system/trunk/includes/class-crm-ajax-functions-one.php

Source: security@wordfence.com

Patch

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3213791%40elex-helpdesk-customer-support-ticket-system&new=3213791%40elex-helpdesk-customer-support-ticket-system&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=

Source: security@wordfence.com

Patch

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/cbcd978b-e81f-4c39-b2f7-adc948d21b1b?source=cve

Source: security@wordfence.com

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