CVE-2024-10800
Description
The WordPress User Extra Fields plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation due to a missing capability check on the ajax_save_fields() function in all versions up to, and including, 16.6. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to add custom fields that can be updated and then use the check_and_overwrite_wp_or_woocommerce_fields function to update the wp_capabilities field to have administrator privileges.
CWE
- CWE-862 — CWE-862 Missing Authorization
Affected
- vanquish / WordPress User Extra Fields — v=0 ≤16.6 [affected]
CVSS
- 3.1 score=8.8 severity=HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
References
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a18fa7e6-813d-4b48-bd4e-5232fb8382d1?source=cve
- https://codecanyon.net/item/user-extra-fields/12949844
Source
cvelistV5-main/cves/2024/10xxx/CVE-2024-10800.json