CVE-2024-8428 describes a Privilege Escalation vulnerability in the ForumWP – Forum & Discussion Board Plugin for WordPress, affecting all versions up to and including 2.0.2. This flaw, an Insecure Direct Object Reference (CWE-639), allows authenticated attackers with subscriber-level access to alter the email address of administrative accounts. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 8.8 (High), indicating a network-based attack with low complexity, requiring no user interaction, and leading to high impact on 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.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 2.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ultimatemember:forumwp:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
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.