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THREATINT
PUBLISHED

CVE-2024-8247

Newsletters <= 4.9.9.2 - Authenticated Privilege Escalation



AssignerWordfence
Reserved2024-08-27
Published2024-09-06
Updated2024-09-06

Description

The Newsletters plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 4.9.9.2. This is due to the plugin not restricting what user meta can be updated as screen options. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to escalate their privileges to that of an administrator. Please note that this only affects users with access to edit/update screen options, which means an administrator would need to grant lower privilege users with access to the Sent & Draft Emails page of the plugin in order for this to be exploited.



HIGH: 8.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Problem types

CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

Product status

Default status
0x40075676e0

*
affected

Timeline

2024-09-05:Disclosed

Credits

rajesh patil 0x4007567730

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2577102f-6355-4483-bd3d-1948497cb843?source=cve

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/newsletters-lite/tags/4.9.9.1/wp-mailinglist.php#L3279

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3146287%40newsletters-lite&new=3146287%40newsletters-lite&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=

cve.org CVE-2024-8247

nvd.nist.gov CVE-2024-8247

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