CVE-2024-8247
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CVSS Score
V3.1EPSS Score
v2025.03.14There is a 0.3% chance that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.
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Description
The Newsletters plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 4.9.9.2. This is due to the plugin not restricting what user meta can be updated as screen options. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to escalate their privileges to that of an administrator. Please note that this only affects users with access to edit/update screen options, which means an administrator would need to grant lower privilege users with access to the Sent & Draft Emails page of the plugin in order for this to be exploited.
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WordPress Vulnerability
Identified and analyzed by Wordfence
Software Type
Patch Status
Published
Software Details
Software Name
Newsletters
Software Slug
newsletters-lite
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Remediation
Update to version 4.9.9.3, or a newer patched version
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CVSS Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
References
Advisory provided by GitHub Security Advisory Database. Published: September 6, 2024, Modified: September 6, 2024