CVE-2024-8289 is a critical privilege escalation and account takeover vulnerability affecting the MultiVendorX – The Ultimate WooCommerce Multivendor Marketplace Solution plugin for WordPress, impacting all versions up to and including 4.2.0. Unauthenticated attackers can exploit this flaw to change vendor passwords, create new vendor accounts, and demote administrators to vendor roles. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL), the vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with no user interaction, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While no public exploit code or active exploitation has been observed, and community discussion is minimal, its high severity warrants immediate attention.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 4.2.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:multivendorx:multivendorx:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.