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CVE-2024-12259: CRM WordPress Plugin – RepairBuddy <= 3.8120 - Missing Authorization to Account Takeover/Privilege Escalation

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 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: 2024-12-18 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The CRM WordPress Plugin – RepairBuddy plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via account takeover in all versions up to, and including, 3.8120. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a user's identity prior to updating their email through the wc_update_user_data AJAX action. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to change arbitrary user's email addresses, including administrators, and leverage that to reset the user's password and gain access to their account.

Affected products

• sweetdaisy86 RepairBuddy – Repair Shop CRM & Booking Plugin for WordPress: through 3.8120

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3204501%40computer-repair-shop&new=3204501%40computer-repair-shop&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3206568%40computer-repair-shop&new=3206568%40computer-repair-shop&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=#file548
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3208270%40computer-repair-shop&new=3208270%40computer-repair-shop&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/80997d2f-3e16-48f6-969b-58844cb83d53?source=cve

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