CVE-2024-11721

Frontend Admin by DynamiApps <= 3.24.5 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation

2024-12-13 00:00
Max Boll (_b0lli)

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 3.25.1
Affected Plugin
Frontend Admin by DynamiApps
Affected Version
<= 3.24.5
CVSS
8.1High
Weakness type
CWE-269 · Improper Privilege Management
CVE
CVE-2024-11721
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At a glance

CVE-2024-11721 is a high-severity Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in the Frontend Admin by DynamiApps WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 3.24.5. It carries a CVSS score of 8.1 (reachable over the network; high confidentiality, integrity, availability impact). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 3.25.1; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed December 2024, reported by Max Boll (_b0lli).

Vulnerability Overview

The Frontend Admin by DynamiApps plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 3.24.5. This is due to insufficient controls on the user role select field when utilizing the 'Role' field in a form. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to create new administrative user accounts, even when the administrative user role has not been provided as an option to the user, granted that unauthenticated users have been provided access to the form.

Technical Analysis

The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, and no privileges on the target site, and no interaction from a victim user. A successful exploit has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, availability — full site compromise territory.

CWE-269: Improper Privilege Management

Frontend Admin by DynamiApps <= 3.24.5 carries this weakness at Role, and reaching it takes no account at all. Improper privilege management means the code lets an account end up with capabilities its role should not have.

It converts a low-privileged account into an administrative one, which makes every other restriction on the site irrelevant. For Frontend Admin by DynamiApps the fix is 3.25.1: builds <= 3.24.5 are affected, anything from 3.25.1 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 3.25.1, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

This one needs no account at all, which puts it outside what login hardening can reach; WordSec's login security narrows the account-level paths around it, and the firewall is what inspects the request itself. None of that substitutes for the fix: Frontend Admin by DynamiApps 3.25.1 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Login Security
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-11721https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e9fdc833-8384-42c0-ad9b-72e5b6351964https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-11721

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