CVE-2024-8268

Published: Sep 10, 2024Modified: Sep 26, 2024

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 Frontend Dashboard plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized code execution due to insufficient filtering on callable methods/functions via the ajax_request() function in all versions up to, and including, 2.2.4. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to call arbitrary functions that can be leverage for privilege escalation by changing user's passwords.

Affected (1)

Products: Buffercode: Frontend Dashboard

1 product

Frontend Dashboard

Configuration A

1 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Buffercode Frontend Dashboard	Before 2.2.5

Related CWEs

Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

The product constructs all or part of a code segment using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the syntax or behavior of the intended code segment.

References (3)

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/frontend-dashboard/tags/2.2.4/route/class-fed-request.php#L29

Source: security@wordfence.com

Issue Tracking

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3147868/frontend-dashboard/tags/2.2.5/route/class-fed-request.php?old=3048034&old_path=frontend-dashboard%2Ftags%2F2.2.4%2Froute%2Fclass-fed-request.php

Source: security@wordfence.com

Patch

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7d66694a-c99f-44f8-8004-1a47ad9f9250?source=cve

Source: security@wordfence.com

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