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BoomBox Theme Extensions <= 1.8.0 — Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation via Password Reset/Account Takeover in boombox_ajax_reset_password

CVE-2024-12295Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤1.8.0Update to 1.8.1 or newer

All remediation steps
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Severity
High8.8
CVSS
8.8
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:L Privileges required
Low
UI:N User interaction
None
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:H Confidentiality
High
I:H Integrity
High
A:H Availability
High
Weakness
CWE-640 Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password
Required access
Unknown
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
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Am I affected?

BoomBox Theme Extensions boombox-theme-extensions

  1. Affected≤ 1.8.0
  2. Patched in1.8.1

Update to 1.8.1 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 1.8.0. Version 1.8.1 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under BoomBox Theme Extensions.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.

What to do

  1. Update to version 1.8.1, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch BoomBox Theme Extensions to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Tonn.

The BoomBox Theme Extensions plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via account takeover in all versions up to, and including, 1.8.0. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a user's identity prior to updating their password through the 'boombox_ajax_reset_password' function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level privileges and above, to change arbitrary user's passwords, including administrators, and leverage that to 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

More in BoomBox Theme Extensions

All 2
More vulnerabilities in BoomBox Theme Extensions
SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
High8.8Authenticated (Contributor+) Local File Inclusion via Shortcode
≤1.8.0Update to 1.8.1
CVE-2024-12859

Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity high, CVSS 8.8

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
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