CVE-2024-8121

Published: Sep 4, 2024Modified: Sep 6, 2024

4.3

Vector

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

Exploitability: 2.8 / Impact: 1.4

Source: NVD

Description

The The Ultimate WordPress Toolkit – WP Extended plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of user names due to a missing capability check on the wpext_change_admin_name() function in all versions up to, and including, 3.0.8. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to change an admin's username to a username of their liking as long as the default 'admin' was used.

Affected (1)

Products: Wpextended: Wp Extended

1 product

Configuration A

1 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Wpextended Wp Extended	Before 3.0.9

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/browser/wpextended/trunk/includes/modules/core_extensions/wpext_block_user_name_admin/wpext_block_user_name_admin.php#L49

Source: security@wordfence.com

Product

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=3145430%40wpextended%2Ftrunk&old=3134345%40wpextended%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=

Source: security@wordfence.com

Patch

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f3d08ac9-22f7-45f4-9896-05b90f5fce64?source=cve

Source: security@wordfence.com

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