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The Ultimate WordPress Toolkit – WP Extended, CVE-2024-8121

CVE, Research URL

CVE-2024-8121

Published on
Sep 04, 2024
Research Description
The The Ultimate WordPress Toolkit – WP Extended plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of user names due to a missing capability check on the wpext_change_admin_name() 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 change an admin's username to a username of their liking as long as the default 'admin' was used.
Affected versions
Min -, max 3.0.9.
Status
vulnerable