CVE-2023-4239 (GCVE-0-2023-4239)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-08-09 02:04 – Updated: 2025-02-05 19:37
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Summary
The Real Estate Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in versions up to, and including, 6.7.1 due to insufficient restriction on the 'rem_save_profile_front' function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with minimal permissions such as a subscriber, to modify their user role by supplying the 'wp_capabilities' parameter during a profile update.
Severity ?
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
rameez_iqbal Real Estate Manager – Property Listing and Agent Management Affected: * , ≤ 6.7.1 (semver)
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