DeluxeThemes Media Manager for UserPro Plugin up to 3.12.0 on WordPress upm_upload_media authorization

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A vulnerability has been found in DeluxeThemes Media Manager for UserPro Plugin up to 3.12.0 on WordPress and classified as critical. Impacted is the function upm_upload_media. The manipulation leads to authorization. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2024-12821. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available.

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A vulnerability was found in DeluxeThemes Media Manager for UserPro Plugin up to 3.12.0 on WordPress. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects the function upm_upload_media. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a authorization vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-862. The product does not perform an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

The Media Manager for UserPro plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data that can lead to privilege escalation due to a missing capability check on the upm_upload_media() function in all versions up to, and including, 3.12.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to update arbitrary options on the WordPress site. This can be leveraged to update the default role for registration to administrator and enable user registration for attackers to gain administrative user access to a vulnerable site.

The weakness was released by Lucio Sá. The advisory is shared at wordfence.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-12821 since 12/19/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 03/01/2025).

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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• DeluxeThemes

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• Media Manager for UserPro Plugin

Version

• 3.0
• 3.1
• 3.2
• 3.3
• 3.4
• 3.5
• 3.6
• 3.7
• 3.8
• 3.9
• 3.10
• 3.11
• 3.12.0

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