CVE-2024-2417 Missing authorization in User Registration & Membership – Free & Paid Memberships, Subscriptions, Content Restriction, User Profile, Custom User Registration & Login Builder
Authenticated subscribers can escalate privileges to administrator by modifying registration form settings due to missing capability checks.
- 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-2024-2417?
CVE-2024-2417 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in wpeverest User Registration & Membership – Free & Paid Memberships, Subscriptions, Content Restriction, User Profile, Custom User Registration & Login Builder, published on 2 May 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The User Registration – Custom Registration Form, Login Form, and User Profile WordPress Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation due to a missing capability check on the form_save_action() function in all versions up to, and including, 3.1.5. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to update the registration form and make the default registration role administrator. This subsequently allows the attacker to register an account as an administrator on the site.
Weakness: CWE-862
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-2417?
How do I fix CVE-2024-2417?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-2417 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-2024-2417 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-2417 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-qrjj-6qvw-q37p.