CVE-2024-12876

Golo - Directory & Listing, Travel WordPress Theme <= 1.6.10 - Missing Authorization to Privilege Escalation via Unauthenticated Arbitrary User Password Change

2025-03-06 00:00
Lucio Sá

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 1.6.11
Affected Theme
Golo - City Travel Guide WordPress Theme
Affected Version
<= 1.6.10
CVSS
9.8Critical
Weakness type
CWE-862 · Missing Authorization
CVE
CVE-2024-12876
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At a glance

CVE-2024-12876 is a critical-severity Missing Authorization vulnerability in the Golo - City Travel Guide WordPress Theme WordPress theme, affecting versions <= 1.6.10. 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 1.6.11; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed March 2025, reported by Lucio Sá.

Vulnerability Overview

The Golo - City Travel Guide WordPress Theme theme for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via account takeover in all versions up to, and including, 1.6.10. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a user's identity prior to updating their password. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to change arbitrary user's passwords, including administrators, and leverage that to 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-862: Missing Authorization

Reaching this weakness in Golo - City Travel Guide WordPress Theme <= 1.6.10 takes no account at all. A missing authorization check means a function is reachable by anyone who can reach the endpoint, because the code never asks whether the caller is allowed to perform the action.

Any user who can reach the endpoint gets to run an action reserved for higher-privileged roles, from reading protected data to changing settings or content. For Golo - City Travel Guide WordPress Theme the fix is 1.6.11: builds <= 1.6.10 are affected, anything from 1.6.11 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 1.6.11, 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: Golo - City Travel Guide WordPress Theme 1.6.11 closes this, and updating the theme is the step that ends it.

  • Login Security
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External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-12876https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e6cb81e5-61a4-4b67-a668-d8a7d46b2ceahttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-12876

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