CVE-2024-6482

CVE-2024-6482 is a high-severity privilege escalation vulnerability affecting the Login with phone number plugin for WordPress, versions up to and including 1.7.49. This flaw stems from insufficient validation and missing capability checks in the 'lwp_update_password_action' function, allowing authenticated attackers with Subscriber-level access or higher to elevate their privileges to any role, including Administrator. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 8.8, indicating a high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, with a low attack complexity and requiring only low privileges. While a partial patch was released in version 1.7.40, exploitation in later versions (1.7.40-1.7.49) required the Login with phone number Pro plugin. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.