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CVE-2024-10402: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The vulnerability (CVE-2024-10402) affects the Forminator Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder plugin for WordPress in versions up to and including 1.35.1. The vulnerability was discovered and disclosed on October 26, 2024, and involves unauthorized access due to missing capability checks (NVD).

Technical details

The vulnerability stems from a missing capability check on a function that allows authenticated users with Contributor-level access and above to perform unauthorized actions. The severity of this vulnerability is rated as HIGH with a CVSS v3.1 base score of 8.8 (NIST) and 7.5 (Wordfence). The vulnerability is classified as CWE-862 (Missing Authorization) (NVD, Wordfence).

Impact

The vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with Contributor-level access to create new forms or edit existing ones. Most critically, attackers can update the default registration role to Administrator on User Registration forms, potentially leading to privilege escalation (NVD).

Mitigation and workarounds

Users should update their Forminator Forms plugin to version 1.36.0 or later, which contains the fix for this vulnerability (WordPress Plugin).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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