CVE-2021-24649

published 2022-11-21

CVE-2021-24649: The WP User Frontend WordPress plugin before 3.5.29 uses a user supplied argument called urhidden in its registration form, which contains the role for the…

Priority P3 56 critical 9.8 CVSS 3.1

AV N AC L PR N UI N S U C H I H A H

The WP User Frontend WordPress plugin before 3.5.29 uses a user supplied argument called urhidden in its registration form, which contains the role for the account to be created with, encrypted via wpuf_encryption(). This could allow an attacker having access to the AUTH_KEY and AUTH_SALT constant (via an arbitrary file access issue for example, or if the blog is using the default keys) to create an account with any role they want, such as admin

Affected

1 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
wedevs	wp_user_frontend	< 3.5.29	3.5.29

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