{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-12259 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2024-12259 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2024-12259 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in sweetdaisy86 RepairBuddy – Repair Shop CRM \u0026 Booking Plugin for WordPress, published on 18 Dec 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2024-12259 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2024-12259 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in sweetdaisy86 RepairBuddy – Repair Shop CRM \u0026 Booking Plugin for WordPress, published on 18 Dec 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-12259 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: sweetdaisy86 RepairBuddy – Repair Shop CRM \u0026 Booking Plugin for WordPress. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-12259/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-12259/index.md)","id":"CVE-2024-12259","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-12259/index.md","name":"CVE-2024-12259","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-cp2r-29q5-494x"],"analysis":{"component_type":"cms_plugin","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["privilege_escalation","account_takeover"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"WordPress CRM plugin","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"Authenticated attackers can escalate privileges and take over accounts by changing arbitrary user emails due to missing authorization checks in the RepairBuddy plugin.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"missing_authorization"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Wordfence","cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":8.8,"severity":"high","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-862","name":"Missing Authorization"}],"description":"The CRM WordPress Plugin – RepairBuddy plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via account takeover in all versions up to, and including, 3.8120. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a user's identity prior to updating their email through the wc_update_user_data AJAX action. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to change arbitrary user's email addresses, including administrators, and leverage that to reset the user's password and gain access to their account.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":null,"headline":"CRM WordPress Plugin – RepairBuddy \u003c= 3.8120 - Missing Authorization to Account Takeover/Privilege Escalation","id":"CVE-2024-12259","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"missing_authorization","year":"2024"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":4,"next":{"headline":"Ultimate Endpoints With Rest Api \u003c= 2.2.2 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting","id":"CVE-2024-12260"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"WP Service Payment Form With Authorize.net \u003c= 2.6.3 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting","id":"CVE-2024-12258"},"products":["RepairBuddy – Repair Shop CRM \u0026 Booking Plugin for WordPress"],"published":"2024-12-18","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"total"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-04-08","vendors":["sweetdaisy86"]},"summary":"Authenticated attackers can escalate privileges and take over accounts by changing arbitrary user emails due to missing authorization checks in the RepairBuddy plugin.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-12259/"}