The Ultimate WordPress Toolkit – WP Extended <= 3.0.8 - Missing Authorization to Admin Username Change

5.4
Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2024-8121
CVSS 5.4 (Medium)
Publicly Published September 3, 2024
Last Updated September 4, 2024
Researcher Marco Wotschka - Wordfence

Description

The The Ultimate WordPress Toolkit – WP Extended plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of user names due to a missing capability check on the wpext_change_admin_name() function in all versions up to, and including, 3.0.8. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to change an admin's username to a username of their liking as long as the default 'admin' was used.

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Vulnerability Details for The Ultimate WordPress Toolkit – WP Extended

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wpextended (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 3.0.9, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 3.0.8
Patched Version
  • 3.0.9

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