CVE-2024-11024

AppPresser – Mobile App Framework <= 4.4.6 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation via Password Reset

2024-11-25 00:00

Strategic Overview

Status: Patched in 4.4.7
Affected Plugin: AppPresser – Mobile App Framework
Affected Version: <= 4.4.6
CVSS: 9.8Critical
Weakness type: CWE-230 · Improper Handling of Missing Values
CVE: CVE-2024-11024

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At a glance

CVE-2024-11024 is a critical-severity Improper Handling of Missing Values vulnerability in the AppPresser WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 4.4.6. It carries a CVSS score of 9.8 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity; high confidentiality, integrity, availability impact). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 4.4.7; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed November 2024, reported by shaman0x01.

Vulnerability Overview

The AppPresser – Mobile App Framework plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via account takeover in all versions up to, and including, 4.4.6. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a user's password reset code prior to updating their password. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers, with knowledge of a user's email address, to reset the user's password and gain access to their account.

Technical Analysis

The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, 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-230: Improper Handling of Missing Values

The product does not handle or incorrectly handles when a parameter, field, or argument name is specified, but the associated value is missing, i.e. it is empty, blank, or null.

Remediation

Update to version 4.4.7, 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: AppPresser 4.4.7 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

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External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-11024 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/43cb0399-4add-43d5-863c-30e11803bd90 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-11024

Related records

Other vulnerabilities in AppPresser – Mobile App Framework

CVSS Vector

9.8

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionNone
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityHigh
IntegrityHigh
AvailabilityHigh

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