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CVE-2024-1158: Post Form – Registration Form – Profile Form for User Profiles – Frontend Content Forms for User Submissions (UGC) <= 2.8.7 - Missing Authorization

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-03-13 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The Post Form – Registration Form – Profile Form for User Profiles – Frontend Content Forms for User Submissions (UGC) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the buddyforms_new_page function in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.7. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber access or higher, to create pages with arbitrary titles. These pages are published.

Affected products

• Themekraft BuddyForms: before 2.8.8 — fixed in 2.8.8

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Themekraft BuddyForms 2.8.8. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/buddyforms/trunk/includes/admin/admin-ajax.php?rev=2820257#L80
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=3046092%40buddyforms%2Ftrunk&old=3031945%40buddyforms%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/198cb3bb-73fe-45ae-b8e0-b7ee8dda9547?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/buddyforms/trunk/includes/admin/admin-ajax.php?rev=2820257#L80
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=3046092%40buddyforms%2Ftrunk&old=3031945%40buddyforms%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/198cb3bb-73fe-45ae-b8e0-b7ee8dda9547?source=cve

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