CVE-2024-1991 Privilege escalation in RegistrationMagic – Custom Registration Forms, User Registration, Payment, and User Login

What is CVE-2024-1991?

CVE-2024-1991 is a high-severity vulnerability in metagauss RegistrationMagic – Custom Registration Forms, User Registration, Payment, and User Login, published on 9 Apr 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The RegistrationMagic – Custom Registration Forms, User Registration, Payment, and User Login plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation due to a missing capability check on the update_users_role() function in all versions up to, and including, 5.3.0.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to escalate their privileges to that of an administrator

Weakness: CWE-862

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-1991?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Metagauss Registrationmagic.

How do I fix CVE-2024-1991?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-1991 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2024-1991 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-1991 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in metagauss RegistrationMagic – Custom Registration Forms, User Registration, Payment, and User Login

• CVE-2017-20208 RegistrationMagic - Custom Registration Forms <= 3.7.9.2 - PHP Object Injection Critical 9.8
• CVE-2024-10508 Auth bypass in RegistrationMagic – Custom Registration Forms, User Registration, Payment, and User Login Critical 9.8
• CVE-2023-2499 RegistrationMagic <= 5.2.1.0 - Authentication Bypass Critical 9.8
• CVE-2021-4073 RegistrationMagic <= 5.0.1.7 Authentication Bypass Critical 9.8
• CVE-2024-1990 SQL injection in RegistrationMagic – Custom Registration Forms, User Registration, Payment, and User Login High 8.8

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-33x5-jqpp-33fv.