Vulnerability CVE-2024-1169

Vulnerability CVE-2024-1169

Published: 2024-03-07

Description:

The Post Form ?? Registration Form ?? Profile Form for User Profiles ?? Frontend Content Forms for User Submissions (UGC) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized media upload due to a missing capability check on the buddyforms_upload_handle_dropped_media function in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.7. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to upload media files.

References:

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6d14a90d-65ea-45da-956b-0735e2e2b538?source=cve

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/buddyforms/trunk/includes/functions.php#L1466

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3046092/buddyforms/trunk/includes/functions.php?contextall=1&old=3023795&old_path=%2Fbuddyforms%2Ftrunk%2Fincludes%2Ffunctions.php