# 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.

- **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:** 2 May 2024
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-qrjj-6qvw-q37p

## 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 (Missing Authorization)

## 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.

## Is CVE-2024-2417 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-2417 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-2417 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: 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.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-2417 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: wpeverest User Registration & Membership – Free & Paid Memberships, Subscriptions, Content Restriction, User Profile, Custom User Registration & Login Builder. 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-2024-2417/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-2417/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-2417
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-2417
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-2417

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-2417/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.