CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-7493
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2024-09-06
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-269
Description
The WPCOM Member plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 1.5.2.1. This is due to the plugin allowing arbitrary data to be passed to wp_insert_user() during registration. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update their role to that of an administrator during registration.
Affected configurations
• wpcom wpcom member (< 1.5.3)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management weakness
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wpcom-member/tags/1.5.2/includes/form-validation.php#L267 Issue Tracking
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3147399/wpcom-member/trunk/includes/form-validation.php plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ec7f3e0c-a07c-4082-9b6b-12d0fbe0fdc8?source=cve Third Party Advisory