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CVE-2024-8121 The Ultimate WordPress Toolkit – WP Extended <= 3.0.8 - Missing Authorization to Admin Username Change

Medium 5.4 Published Updated

Authenticated subscribers can change the admin username due to missing capability checks, potentially leading to account takeover.

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-2024-8121?

CVE-2024-8121 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in wpextended The Ultimate WordPress Toolkit – WP Extended, published on 4 Sep 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The The Ultimate WordPress Toolkit – WP Extended plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of user names due to a missing capability check on the wpext_change_admin_name() function in all versions up to, and including, 3.0.8. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to change an admin's username to a username of their liking as long as the default 'admin' was used.

Weakness: CWE-862

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-8121?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Wpextended Wp Extended.

How do I fix CVE-2024-8121?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-8121 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-2024-8121 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-8121 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-9299-82cr-w458.

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