VDB-264881 · CVE-2024-33550 · GCVE-0-2024-33550

JR King & Eran Schoellhorn WP Masquerade Plugin up to 1.1.0 on WordPress privileges management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in JR King & Eran Schoellhorn WP Masquerade Plugin up to 1.1.0 on WordPress. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality. The manipulation leads to privileges management. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2024-33550. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in JR King & Eran Schoellhorn WP Masquerade Plugin up to 1.1.0 on WordPress. This issue affects an unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in JR King/Eran Schoellhorn WP Masquerade allows Privilege Escalation.This issue affects WP Masquerade: from n/a through 1.1.0.

The weakness was released by Rafie Muhammad. The advisory is shared at patchstack.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-33550 since 04/24/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 05/17/2024). MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1068 for this issue.

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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Productinfo

Type

WordPress Plugin

Vendor

JR King & Eran Schoellhorn

Name

WP Masquerade Plugin

Version

CPE 2.3info

CPE 2.2info

CVSSv4info

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CVSSv3info

VulDB Meta Base Score: 7.6
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 7.4

VulDB Base Score: 6.3
VulDB Temp Score: 6.1
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VulDB Reliability: 🔍

CNA Base Score: 8.8
CNA Vector (Patchstack): 🔍

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Privileges management
CWE: CWE-269 / CWE-266
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

Availability: 🔍
Status: Not defined

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Threat Intelligenceinfo

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: no mitigation known
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Timelineinfo

04/24/2024 🔍
05/17/2024 +23 days 🔍
05/17/2024 +0 days 🔍
05/17/2024 +0 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: patchstack.com
Researcher: Rafie Muhammad
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2024-33550 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2024-33550
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-264881

Entryinfo

Created: 05/17/2024 15:10
Changes: 05/17/2024 15:10 (64)
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