Privilege escalation

The Academy LMS – eLearning and online course solution for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 1.9.19. This is due to plugin allowing arbitrary user meta updates through the saveduserinfo function. This makes it possible for...

BIT-WORDPRESS-2020-4050 set-screen-option filter misuse by plugins leading to privilege escalation in WordPress

In affected versions of WordPress, misuse of the set-screen-option filter's return value allows arbitrary user meta fields to be saved. It does require an admin to install a plugin that would misuse the filter. Once installed, it can be leveraged by low privileged users. This has been patched in...

CVE-2023-5776

CVE-2023-5776 (Post Meta Data Manager, WordPress) is a CSRF vulnerability in all versions up to 1.2.1 due to missing nonce validation on meta deletion endpoints (pmdm_wp_ajax_delete_meta, pmdm_wp_delete_user_meta, pmdm_wp_delete_user_meta). Unauthenticated attackers can forge requests to delete a...

Exploit for Missing Authentication for Critical Function in Properfraction Profilepress

CVE-2021-34621 ProfilePress 3.0 - 3.1.3 - Unauthenticated Priv...

Default credentials

The WordPress Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate WordPress plugin before 5.12.8 does not validate the user meta to be retrieved via the user shortcode, allowing any authenticated users such as subscriber to retrieve arbitrary user meta except the userpass, such as the user email and activati...

ProfilePress 3.0 - 3.1.3 - Authenticated Privilege Escalation

The user profile update functionality of the plugin allowed arbitrary user meta to be supplied, including wpcapabilities, during a profile update which made it possible for users to escalate their privileges to that of an an administrator. PoC 'Hax0r3', 'regemail' = '[email protected]',...

ProfilePress 3.0 - 3.1.3 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation

The user registration functionality of the plugin allowed arbitrary user meta to be supplied, including wpcapabilities, during registration which made it possible for users to register as an administrator. PoC 'Hax0r', 'regemail' = '[email protected]', 'regpassword' = 'password', 'regpasswordpresen...

Debian DLA-2371-1 : wordpress security update

Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in Wordpress, a popular content management framework. CVE-2019-17670 WordPress has a Server Side Request Forgery SSRF vulnerability because Windows paths are mishandled during certain validation of relative URLs. CVE-2020-4047 Authenticated users with uplo...

WordPress Multiple Vulnerabilities (Jun 2020) - Windows

WordPress is prone to multiple vulnerabilities. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only CPE = "cpe:/a:wordpress:wordpress"; ifdescripti...

CVE-2020-4050

In affected versions of WordPress, misuse of the set-screen-option filter's return value allows arbitrary user meta fields to be saved. It does require an admin to install a plugin that would misuse the filter. Once installed, it can be leveraged by low privileged users. This has been patched in...