CVE-2023-4239

Description

The Real Estate Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in versions up to, and including, 7.2 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.

Weakness classification

• CWE-269: Improper Privilege Management

Primary references

• security@wordfence.com — Exploit
• security@wordfence.com — Third Party Advisory
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Exploit
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Third Party Advisory