PSW Front-end Login & Registration <= 1.12 - Insufficiently Random Values to Unauthenticated Account Takeover/Privilege Escalation via customer_registration Function
28Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 9.8epss 0.6%
exploitation probability
0.6%top 54% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
The PSW Front-end Login & Registration plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 1.12 via the customer_registration() function. This is due to the use of a weak, low-entropy OTP mechanism in the forget() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to initiate a password reset for any user, including administrators, and elevate their privileges for full site takeover.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
empoweringprowebsite · PSW Front-end Login & RegistrationReferences
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/psw-login-and-registration/trunk/public/class-prositegeneralfeatures-public.php#L323https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/psw-login-and-registration/trunk/public/class-prositegeneralfeatures-public.php#L493https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/psw-login-and-registration/trunk/public/class-prositegeneralfeatures-public.php#L731https://wordpress.org/plugins/psw-login-and-registration/#developershttps://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a2d6e595-0682-4a41-a432-afbcb50144e8?source=cve