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WordPress Plugin: forumwp: CVE-2024-8428: Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Sep 6, 2024
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Apr 30, 2026

Description

The ForumWP – Forum and 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.

Solution

forumwp-plugin-cve-2024-8428
Title
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