CVE-2024-8246

CVE-2024-8246 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in the Post Form – Registration Form – Profile Form for User Profiles – Frontend Content Forms for User Submissions (UGC) plugin for WordPress, affecting all versions up to and including 2.8.11. This flaw allows authenticated users with contributor-level access or higher to create registration forms that assign administrative roles, enabling them to register as administrators. With a CVSS score of 8.8 (HIGH), the vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity and no user interaction, potentially leading to full compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage, indicating a low current threat landscape.