CVE-2024-8853 is a critical privilege escalation vulnerability affecting the Webo-facto plugin for WordPress, versions up to and including 1.40. Unauthenticated attackers can exploit this by registering with a username containing '-wfuser' to gain administrative access. With a CVSS score of 9.8, this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with no user interaction, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While no public exploits or active exploitation have been observed, and community discussion is minimal, the high FAUCET Risk Score of 78/100 indicates a significant potential threat.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 1.41CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:medialibs:webo-facto:*:*:*:*:*: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
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
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.