Vulnerability Details CVE-2024-8121
The The Ultimate WordPress Toolkit – WP Extended plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of user names due to a missing capability check on the wpext_change_admin_name() function in all versions up to, and including, 3.0.8. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to change an admin's username to a username of their liking as long as the default 'admin' was used.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.001
EPSS Ranking 32.8%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 5.4
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wpextended/trunk/includes/modules/core_extensions/wpext_block_user_name_admin/wpext_block_user_name_admin.php#L49
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=3145430%40wpextended%2Ftrunk&old=3134345%40wpextended%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f3d08ac9-22f7-45f4-9896-05b90f5fce64?source=cve
Products affected by CVE-2024-8121
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cpe:2.3:a:wpextended:wp_extended:-
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cpe:2.3:a:wpextended:wp_extended:1.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:wpextended:wp_extended:1.0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:wpextended:wp_extended:1.2.0
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cpe:2.3:a:wpextended:wp_extended:2.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:wpextended:wp_extended:2.1.0
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cpe:2.3:a:wpextended:wp_extended:2.1.2
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cpe:2.3:a:wpextended:wp_extended:2.1.3
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cpe:2.3:a:wpextended:wp_extended:2.1.4
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cpe:2.3:a:wpextended:wp_extended:2.2.0
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cpe:2.3:a:wpextended:wp_extended:2.3.0
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cpe:2.3:a:wpextended:wp_extended:2.4.0
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cpe:2.3:a:wpextended:wp_extended:2.4.1
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cpe:2.3:a:wpextended:wp_extended:2.4.2
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cpe:2.3:a:wpextended:wp_extended:2.4.3
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cpe:2.3:a:wpextended:wp_extended:2.4.4
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cpe:2.3:a:wpextended:wp_extended:2.4.5
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cpe:2.3:a:wpextended:wp_extended:2.4.6
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cpe:2.3:a:wpextended:wp_extended:2.4.7
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cpe:2.3:a:wpextended:wp_extended:3.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:wpextended:wp_extended:3.0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:wpextended:wp_extended:3.0.2
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cpe:2.3:a:wpextended:wp_extended:3.0.3
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cpe:2.3:a:wpextended:wp_extended:3.0.4
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cpe:2.3:a:wpextended:wp_extended:3.0.5