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The Ultimate WordPress Toolkit – WP Extended, CVE-2024-8102

CVE, Research URL

CVE-2024-8102

Published on
Sep 04, 2024
Research Description
The The Ultimate WordPress Toolkit – WP Extended plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data that can lead to privilege escalation due to a missing capability check on the module_all_toggle_ajax() function in all versions up to, and including, 3.0.8. 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.
Affected versions
Min -, max 3.0.9.
Status
vulnerable