CVE-2024-1158 Missing authorization in Post Form – Registration Form – Profile Form for User Profiles – Frontend Content Forms for User Submissions (UGC)
Authenticated subscribers can create arbitrary published pages due to missing capability checks in the Post Form WordPress 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-2024-1158?
CVE-2024-1158 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in themekraft Post Form – Registration Form – Profile Form for User Profiles – Frontend Content Forms for User Submissions (UGC), published on 13 Mar 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The Post Form – Registration Form – Profile Form for User Profiles – Frontend Content Forms for User Submissions (UGC) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the buddyforms_new_page function in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.7. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber access or higher, to create pages with arbitrary titles. These pages are published.
Weakness: CWE-862
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-1158?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Themekraft Buddyforms.
How do I fix CVE-2024-1158?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-1158 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.
Is CVE-2024-1158 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-1158 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in themekraft Post Form – Registration Form – Profile Form for User Profiles – Frontend Content Forms for User Submissions (UGC)
- CVE-2023-26326 Deserialization in BuddyForms WordPress Plugin
- CVE-2018-21003 SQL injection in n/a
- CVE-2024-8246 Privilege escalation in Post Form – Registration Form – Profile Form for User Profiles – Frontend Content Forms for User Submissions (UGC)
- CVE-2024-32830 WordPress buddyforms plugin <= 2.8.8- Arbitrary File Read and SSRF vulnerability
- CVE-2025-32151 WordPress BuddyForms plugin <= 2.10.2 - Local File Inclusion vulnerability
Sources
Also known as GHSA-77cp-583r-8x6c.