CVE-2024-4958 Missing authorization in User Registration & Membership – Free & Paid Memberships, Subscriptions, Content Restriction, User Profile, Custom User Registration & Login Builder
Authenticated attackers can import forms allowing administrator registration, leading to privilege escalation if an admin publishes the shortcode.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-4958?
CVE-2024-4958 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 1 Jun 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
The User Registration – Custom Registration Form, Login Form, and User Profile WordPress Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'import_form_action' function in versions up to, and including, 3.2.0.1. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level permissions and above, to import a registration form with a default user role of administrator. If an administrator approves or publishes a post or page with the shortcode to the imported form, any user can register as an administrator.
Weakness: CWE-862
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-4958?
How do I fix CVE-2024-4958?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-4958 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-2024-4958 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-4958 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-6wj5-gmp4-h392.