Real Estate Manager <= 7.2 - Arbitrary Usermeta Update to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation

2023-08-08 00:00

István Márton

Strategic Overview

Status

Unpatched

Affected PluginReal Estate Manager – Property Listing and Agent Management

Affected Version<= 7.2

CVSS8.8High

CVECVE-2023-4239

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Vulnerability Overview

The Real Estate Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in versions up to, and including, 7.2 due to insufficient restriction on the 'rem_save_profile_front' function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with minimal permissions such as a subscriber, to modify their user role by supplying the 'wp_capabilities' parameter during a profile update.

Technical Analysis

REMEDIATION: No known patch available. Please review the vulnerability's details in depth and employ mitigations based on your organization's risk tolerance. It may be best to uninstall the affected software and find a replacement. --- IDENTIFIER: CWE-269 (Improper Privilege Management) The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor.

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-4239 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d83d1fd0-6e21-406e-a7c0-89d26eabbb32

CVSS Vector

8.8

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

Base

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

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