CVEvulnerability

CVE-2024-8420

9.8 CRITICAL Published 2025-02-28 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2025-02-28
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-266, CWE-269

Description

The DHVC Form plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.7. This is due to the plugin allowing a user to supply the 'role' field when registering. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to register as an administrator on sites.

Affected configurations

• sitesao dhvc form (< 2.4.8)

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-266 Incorrect Privilege Assignment weakness
  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management weakness

References