CVE-2024-12171 (GCVE-0-2024-12171)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-02-01 03:21 – Updated: 2025-02-03 16:38
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Summary
The ELEX WordPress HelpDesk & Customer Ticketing System plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation due to a missing capability check on the 'eh_crm_agent_add_user' AJAX action in all versions up to, and including, 3.2.6. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to create new administrative user accounts.
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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Vendor Product Version
elextensions ELEX WordPress HelpDesk & Customer Ticketing System Affected: * , ≤ 3.2.6 (semver)
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Credits
Thanh Nam Tran
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