High severity8.8NVD Advisory· Published Sep 6, 2024· Updated Apr 8, 2026
CVE-2024-8428
CVE-2024-8428
Description
The ForumWP – Forum & 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.
Affected products
1Patches
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References
3- www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b5818587-0a52-4734-8f75-263b4ab5020envdThird Party Advisory
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/forumwp/trunk/includes/frontend/class-actions-listener.phpnvdProduct
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3161123/forumwp/tags/2.1.0/includes/frontend/class-actions-listener.phpnvd
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