A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in WP User Control Plugin up to 1.5.3 on WordPress (WordPress Plugin). Affected is some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a unverified password change vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-620. When setting a new password for a user, the product does not require knowledge of the original password, or using another form of authentication. This is going to have an impact on integrity. CVE summarizes:

The WP User Control plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized password resets in versions up to, and including 1.5.3. This is due to the plugin using native password reset functionality, with insufficient validation on the password reset function (in the WP User Control Widget). The function changes the user's password after providing the email. The new password is only sent to the user's email, so the attacker does not have access to the new password.

The weakness was released 09/13/2023. The advisory is shared for download at wordfence.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2023-4915 since 09/12/2023. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1552.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• 1.5.0
• 1.5.1
• 1.5.2
• 1.5.3

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