CVE-2024-11103

Summary

The Contest Gallery plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via account takeover in all versions up to, and including, 24.0.7. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a user's identity prior to updating their password. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to change arbitrary user's passwords, including administrators, and leverage that to gain access to their account.

Affected Software

Weaknesses

• CWE-640: CWE-640 Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

• SSVC:
• Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: yes
  • Technical Impact: total

References

• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/0df7f413-2631-46d9-8c0b-d66f05a02c01?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/contest-gallery/trunk/v10/v10-admin/users/frontend/login/ajax/users-login-check-ajax-password-reset.php#L88
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/contest-gallery/trunk/v10/v10-admin/users/frontend/login/ajax/users-login-check-ajax-lost-password.php#L31
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3196011/contest-gallery/tags/24.0.8/v10/v10-admin/users/frontend/login/ajax/users-login-check-ajax-lost-password.php?old=3190068&old_path=contest-gallery%2Ftags%2F24.0.7%2Fv10%2Fv10-admin%2Fusers%2Ffrontend%2Flogin%2Fajax%2Fusers-login-check-ajax-lost-password.php

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