VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2024-12171

CVSS score8.8 HIGH
EPSS probability0.50%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2025-02-01
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

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.

Weakness classification

  • security@wordfence.com: CWE-862

Primary references