CRM WordPress Plugin – RepairBuddy <= 3.8120 — Missing Authorization to Account Takeover/Privilege Escalation
CVE-2024-12259Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤3.8120Update to 3.8122 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- High8.8
- CVSS
- 8.8CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HWhat 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:HAvailability- High
- Weakness
- CWE-862 Missing Authorization
- Required access
- Unknown
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
On this page8
Am I affected?
RepairBuddy – Repair Shop CRM & Booking Plugin for WordPress computer-repair-shop
- Affected≤ 3.8120
- Patched in3.8122
Update to 3.8122 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 3.8120. Version 3.8122 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under RepairBuddy – Repair Shop CRM & Booking Plugin for WordPress.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
What to do
- Update to version 3.8122, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch RepairBuddy – Repair Shop CRM & Booking Plugin for WordPress to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Thanh Nam Tran.
The CRM WordPress Plugin – RepairBuddy plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via account takeover in all versions up to, and including, 3.8120. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a user's identity prior to updating their email through the wc_update_user_data AJAX action. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to change arbitrary user's email addresses, including administrators, and leverage that to reset the user's password and gain access to their account.
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 8.8
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
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