# CVE-2024-12295: Privilege escalation in BoomBox Theme Extensions

> Authenticated subscribers can escalate privileges to administrator by resetting arbitrary user passwords due to missing identity validation.

- **Severity:** High 8.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 19 Mar 2025
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-wq5g-2475-cmrr

## What is CVE-2024-12295?

CVE-2024-12295 is a high-severity vulnerability in PX-lab BoomBox Theme Extensions, published on 19 Mar 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The BoomBox Theme Extensions plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via account takeover in all versions up to, and including, 1.8.0. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a user's identity prior to updating their password through the 'boombox_ajax_reset_password' function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level privileges and above, to change arbitrary user's passwords, including administrators, and leverage that to gain access to their account.

Weakness: CWE-640 (Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-12295?


## How do I fix CVE-2024-12295?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-12295 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-12295 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-12295 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-12295 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-12295 is a high-severity vulnerability in PX-lab BoomBox Theme Extensions, published on 19 Mar 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-12295 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: PX-lab BoomBox Theme Extensions. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-12295/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-12295/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-12295
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-12295
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-12295

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-12295/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.