Description

The HQ Rental Software plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.5.29. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the displaySettingsPage() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update arbitrary options that can be leveraged for privilege escalation 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-2024-11689

CVSS Base Severity: HIGH

CVSS Base Score: 8.8

Affected Products

Vendor: caagsoftware

Product: HQ Rental Software

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.06% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 25.8% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-02-04 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2e9142b2-2935-4644-8c56-00789948202b?source=cve
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hq-rental-software/tags/1.5.29/includes/settings/HQRentalsAdminSettings.php#L74
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hq-rental-software/tags/1.5.29/includes/settings/HQRentalsSettings.php#L489

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