ForumWP Plugin up to 2.0.2 on WordPress resource injection

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A vulnerability identified as critical has been detected in ForumWP Plugin up to 2.0.2 on WordPress. This affects an unknown function. This manipulation causes resource injection. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-8428. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available.

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A vulnerability has been found in ForumWP Plugin up to 2.0.2 on WordPress and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is some unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource injection vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-99. The product receives input from an upstream component, but it does not restrict or incorrectly restricts the input before it is used as an identifier for a resource that may be outside the intended sphere of control. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

The ForumWP – Forum & Discussion Board Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation via Insecure Direct Object Reference in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.2 via the submit_form_handler due to missing validation on the 'user_id' user controlled key. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to change the email address of administrative user accounts which can then be leveraged to reset the administrative users password and gain access to their account.

It is possible to read the advisory at wordfence.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2024-8428 since 09/04/2024. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 09/27/2024).

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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• WordPress Plugin

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• ForumWP Plugin

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• 2.0.0
• 2.0.1
• 2.0.2

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