WP User Frontend <= 3.5.28 — Privilege Escalation
CVE-2021-24649Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤3.5.28Update to 3.5.29 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- High8.1
- CVSS
- 8.1CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:NWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:LPrivileges required- Low
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:HConfidentiality- High
I:HIntegrity- High
A:NAvailability- None
- Weakness
- CWE-269 Privilege Escalation
- Required access
- Unknown
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
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Am I affected?
User Frontend – Membership, User Registration, User Profile, User Directory & Content Restriction with Frontend Post Submission wp-user-frontend
- Affected≤ 3.5.28
- Patched in3.5.29
Update to 3.5.29 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 3.5.28. Version 3.5.29 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under User Frontend – Membership, User Registration, User Profile, User Directory & Content Restriction with Frontend Post Submission.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
What to do
- Update to version 3.5.29, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch User Frontend – Membership, User Registration, User Profile, User Directory & Content Restriction with Frontend Post Submission to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to AyeCode Ltd.
The WP User Frontend plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation due to the default user role checking on the process_registration function in versions up to, and including, 3.5.28 which accepts user supplied input via the urhidden value. This makes it possible for attackers, under certain circumstances, to register as administrators. This requires the attacker have access to the AUTH_KEY and AUTH_SALT values from wp-config.php.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
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Timeline
CVE published
Severity high, CVSS 8.1
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
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