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ELEX WordPress HelpDesk & Customer Ticketing System, CVE-2024-12171

CVE, Research URL

CVE-2024-12171

Published on
Feb 01, 2025
Research Description
The ELEX WordPress HelpDesk & Customer Ticketing System plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation due to a missing capability check on the 'eh_crm_agent_add_user' AJAX action in all versions up to, and including, 3.2.6. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to create new administrative user accounts.
Affected versions
Min -, max 3.2.7.
Status
vulnerable