CVE-2024-8428 (GCVE-0-2024-8428)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-09-06 13:55
Modified
2026-04-08 17:17
CWE
  • CWE-639 - Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
Summary
The ForumWP – Forum & Discussion Board Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation via Insecure Direct Object Reference in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.2 via the submit_form_handler due to missing validation on the 'user_id' user controlled key. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to change the email address of administrative user accounts which can then be leveraged to reset the administrative users password and gain access to their account.
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