VULNERABILITY

WordPress Plugin: boombox-theme-extensions: CVE-2024-12295: Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password

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WordPress Plugin: boombox-theme-extensions: CVE-2024-12295: Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
03/18/2025
Created
05/16/2025
Added
05/15/2025
Modified
05/15/2025

Description

The BoomBox Theme Extensions plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via account takeover in all versions up to, and including, 1.8.0. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a user's identity prior to updating their password through the 'boombox_ajax_reset_password' function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level privileges and above, to change arbitrary user's passwords, including administrators, and leverage that to gain access to their account.

Solution(s)

  • boombox-theme-extensions-plugin-cve-2024-12295

References

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