# CVE-2024-8268: Frontend Dashboard <= 2.2.4 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Function Call

> Authenticated subscribers can execute arbitrary functions to escalate privileges by changing user passwords in the Frontend Dashboard plugin.

- **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:** 10 Sep 2024
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-728q-f8mc-xgq3

## What is CVE-2024-8268?

CVE-2024-8268 is a high-severity code injection vulnerability in vinoth06 Frontend Dashboard, published on 10 Sep 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The Frontend Dashboard plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized code execution due to insufficient filtering on callable methods/functions via the ajax_request() function in all versions up to, and including, 2.2.4. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to call arbitrary functions that can be leverage for privilege escalation by changing user's passwords.

Weakness: CWE-94 (Improper Control of Generation of Code)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-8268?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Buffercode Frontend Dashboard.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-8268?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-8268 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-8268 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-8268 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-8268 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-8268 is a high-severity code injection vulnerability in vinoth06 Frontend Dashboard, published on 10 Sep 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-2024-8268 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: vinoth06 Frontend Dashboard. 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-2024-8268/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-8268/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-8268
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-8268
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-8268

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-8268/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.