CVE-2024-11415: WP-Orphanage Extended <= 1.2 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Orphan Account Privilege Escalation

8.8 CVSS

Description

The WP-Orphanage Extended plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.2. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the wporphanageex_menu_settings() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to escalate the privileges of all orphan accounts via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-11415

CVSS Base Severity: HIGH

CVSS Base Score: 8.8

Affected Products

Vendor: meloniq

Product: WP-Orphanage Extended

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.05% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 17.81% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-02-03 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f7ed6255-d8df-4f57-961b-1a0c21e352ac?source=cve
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-orphanage-extended/trunk/wp-orphanage-extended-options.php
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3194570%40wp-orphanage-extended&new=3194570%40wp-orphanage-extended&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=

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