Login with phone number <= 1.7.49 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Authorization Bypass to Privilege Escalation

8.8
Improper Privilege Management
CVE CVE-2024-6482
CVSS 8.8 (High)
Publicly Published September 14, 2024
Last Updated September 14, 2024
Researcher Thanh Nam Tran

Description

The Login with phone number plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 1.7.49. This is due to a lack of validation and missing capability check on user-supplied data in the 'lwp_update_password_action' function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to update their role to any other role, including Administrator. The vulnerability was partially patched in version 1.7.40. The login with phone number pro plugin was required to exploit the vulnerability in versions 1.7.40 - 1.7.49.

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Vulnerability Details for Login with phone number

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug login-with-phone-number (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 1.7.50, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 1.7.49
Patched Version
  • 1.7.50

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