CVE-2024-1169
Post Form – Registration Form – Profile Form for User Profiles – Frontend Content Forms for User Submissions (UGC) <= 2.8.7 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Media Upload
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 7.5 High
- Published
- Mar 7, 2024
- Updated
- Apr 8, 2026
- Reserved
- Feb 1, 2024
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.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 7.5 High | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N | Wordfence |
Weaknesses
- CWE-862 Missing Authorization
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
Post Form – Registration Form – Profile Form for User Profiles – Frontend Content Forms for User Submissions (UGC)themekraft |
|
References
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6d14a90d-65ea-45da-956b-0735e2e2b538?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/buddyforms/trunk/includes/functions.php#L1466
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3046092/buddyforms/trunk/includes/functions.php?contextall=1&old=3023795&old_path=%2Fbuddyforms%2Ftrunk%2Fincludes%2Ffunctions.php
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