CVE-2024-1170 is a critical vulnerability affecting the Post Form – Registration Form – Profile Form for User Profiles – Frontend Content Forms for User Submissions (UGC) plugin for WordPress, specifically versions up to and including 2.8.7. This flaw allows unauthenticated attackers to delete arbitrary media files due to a missing capability check in the handle_deleted_media function. With a CVSS score of 8.2 (High), this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, requiring no user interaction or privileges. The primary impact is a high integrity loss and low availability loss, as attackers can delete media files without authorization. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there publicly available exploit modules in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB. The vulnerability has also received minimal community discussion and media coverage, suggesting low public awareness at this time.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 2.8.8CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:themekraft:post_form:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.