CVE-2024-1991

high

Description

The RegistrationMagic – Custom Registration Forms, User Registration, Payment, and User Login plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation due to a missing capability check on the update_users_role() function in all versions up to, and including, 5.3.0.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to escalate their privileges to that of an administrator

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/766e3966-157a-4db3-9179-813032343f76?source=cve

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3049490/custom-registration-form-builder-with-submission-manager#file24

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-registration-form-builder-with-submission-manager/trunk//services/class_rm_user_services.php#L1205

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2024-04-09

Updated: 2026-04-08

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.8

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

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00461