Vulnerability CVE-2024-1170
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 file deletion due to a missing capability check on the handle_deleted_media function in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.7. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete arbitrary media files.

 References:
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/380c646c-fd95-408a-89eb-3e646768bbc5?source=cve
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/buddyforms/trunk/includes/functions.php#L1493
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3046092/buddyforms/trunk?contextall=1&old=3031945&old_path=%2Fbuddyforms%2Ftrunk#file7
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