CRM WordPress Plugin – RepairBuddy, CVE-2024-12259
- CVE, Research URL
- Application
- Published on
- Dec 18, 2024
- Research Description
- The CRM WordPress Plugin – RepairBuddy plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via account takeover in all versions up to, and including, 3.8120. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a user's identity prior to updating their email through the wc_update_user_data AJAX action. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to change arbitrary user's email addresses, including administrators, and leverage that to reset the user's password and gain access to their account.
- Affected versions
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Min -, max 3.8122.
- Status
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vulnerable