The WP User Frontend – Registration, User Profile, Membership, Content Restriction, User Directory, and Frontend Post Submission Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 3.6.5. This is due to the plugin not providing sufficient controls on the ability to supply a role on the registration form shortcode rendered via the registration_form function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with author-level access and above, to add a registration form to a page with the role set to administrator and then subsequently use the form to register as an administrator.
CVE-2023-47682 is a high severity with CVSS 8.8 Privilege Escalation issue affecting the Plugin User Frontend: AI Powered Frontend Posting, User Directory, Profile, Membership & User Registration. It affects Versions up to 3.6.5 and is fixed in 3.6.6.
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CVE-2023-47682 is tracked for the Plugin User Frontend: AI Powered Frontend Posting, User Directory, Profile, Membership & User Registration as high severity with CVSS 8.8. The affected range is Versions up to 3.6.5. Update User Frontend: AI Powered Frontend Posting, User Directory, Profile, Membership & User Registration to 3.6.6 or newer where that version is compatible with the site.
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| Software Type | Plugin |
|---|---|
| Software Slug |
wp-user-frontend
View on wordpress.org
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| CVE | CVE-2023-47682 |
| Patched Versions |
3.6.6
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| Affected Versions |
Versions up to 3.6.5
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WP User Frontend <= 4.0.7 - Authenticated (Administrator+) SQL Injection
User Frontend: AI Powered Frontend Posting, User Directory, Profile, Membership & User Registration <= 4.3.1 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) PHP Object Injection
User Frontend: AI Powered Frontend Posting, User Directory, Profile, Membership & User Registration <= 4.2.8 - Authenticated (Author+) Arbitrary File Upload
WP User Frontend <= 3.5.25 - SQL Injection & Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
WP User Frontend <= 3.5.28 - Privilege Escalation
WP User Frontend <= 4.1.12 - Missing Authorization
WP User Frontend <= 4.1.12 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Shortcode Execution
User Frontend: AI Powered Frontend Posting, User Directory, Profile, Membership & User Registration <= 4.3.1 - Missing Authorization
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