CVE-2024-12295

Summary

The BoomBox Theme Extensions plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via account takeover in all versions up to, and including, 1.8.0. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a user's identity prior to updating their password through the 'boombox_ajax_reset_password' function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level privileges and above, to change arbitrary user's passwords, including administrators, and leverage that to gain access to their account.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
PX-labBoomBox Theme Extensions0 <= 1.8.0affected

Weaknesses

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

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: none
    • Automatable: no
    • Technical Impact: total

References