CVE-2024-12558 Missing authorization in WP BASE Booking of Appointments, Services and Events
Authenticated subscribers can access sensitive database information, including admin password hashes, due to missing capability checks in the export function.
- 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-2024-12558?
CVE-2024-12558 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in puckrobin WP BASE Booking of Appointments, Services and Events, published on 21 Dec 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The WP BASE Booking of Appointments, Services and Events plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data due to a missing capability check on the export_db function in all versions up to, and including, 4.9.2. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to expose sensitive information from the database, such as the hashed administrator password.
Weakness: CWE-862
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-12558?
How do I fix CVE-2024-12558?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-12558 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-2024-12558 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-12558 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Public exploit code: 2 proofs of concept on GitHub.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-6wp4-cpxh-5846.