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Description

The CRM WordPress Plugin – RepairBuddy plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via account takeover in all versions up to, and including, 3.8120. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a user's identity prior to updating their email through the wc_update_user_data AJAX action. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to change arbitrary user's email addresses, including administrators, and leverage that to reset the user's password and gain access to their account.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2024-12-05 | Published 2024-12-18 | Updated 2024-12-18 | Assigner Wordfence




HIGH: 8.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Problem types

CWE-862 Missing Authorization

Product status

Default status
unaffected

* (semver)
affected

Timeline

2024-12-17:Disclosed

Credits

Thanh Nam Tran finder

References

www.wordfence.com/...-3e16-48f6-969b-58844cb83d53?source=cve

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...air-shop&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...air-shop&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...air-shop&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=

cve.org (CVE-2024-12259)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2024-12259)

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