CVE-2024-11194 Privilege escalation in Classified Listing – AI-Powered Classified ads & Business Directory Plugin
Authenticated subscribers can escalate privileges to administrator by exploiting a misconfigured check in the Classified Listing plugin.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-11194?
CVE-2024-11194 is a high-severity vulnerability in techlabpro1 Classified Listing – AI-Powered Classified ads & Business Directory Plugin, published on 19 Nov 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The Classified Listing – Classified ads & Business Directory Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data that can lead to privilege escalation due to a misconfigured check on the 'rtcl_import_settings' function in all versions up to, and including, 3.1.15.1. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to update limited arbitrary options on the WordPress site. This can be leveraged to update the Subscriber role with Administrator-level capabilities to gain administrative user access to a vulnerable site. The vulnerability is limited in that the option updated must have a value that is an array.
Weakness: CWE-862
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-11194?
How do I fix CVE-2024-11194?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-11194 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2024-11194 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-11194 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-gmh4-w5mw-qw74.