Wordpress Plugin BBPress Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation

Strike ID:
E20-9urh1
CVSS:
9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
False Positive:
f
Variants:
1
Year:
2020

Description

An authentication bypass vulnerability exists in the bbPress Wordpress plugin. The vulnerability is due to lack of validation on user authorization requests. A remote unauthorized attacker can exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted HTTP POST request to the system. Successful exploitation results in creating a user with full privileges ('Keymaster' role).

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