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WordPress Plugin: buddyforms: CVE-2024-1169: Missing Authorization

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:N)

Published

Mar 6, 2024

Added

May 15, 2025

Modified

May 5, 2026

Description

The Post Form – Registration Form – Profile Form for User Profiles – Frontend Content Forms for User Submissions (UGC) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized media upload due to a missing capability check on the buddyforms_upload_handle_dropped_media function in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.7. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to upload media files.

Solution

buddyforms-plugin-cve-2024-1169

References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-1169
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6d14a90d-65ea-45da-956b-0735e2e2b538?source=api-prod
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2024-16937
CVE-2024-1169
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2024-1169
CWE-862
EUVD-EUVD-2024-16937

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