CVE-2024-50490

WordPress PegaPoll plugin <= 1.0.2 - Arbitrary Option Update to Privilege Escalation vulnerability

Severity Score

9.8

*CVSS v3.1

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

Attend

*SSVC

Descriptions

Missing Authorization vulnerability in Szabolcs Szecsenyi PegaPoll allows Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by ACLs.This issue affects PegaPoll: from n/a through 1.0.2.

La vulnerabilidad de autorización faltante en Szabolcs Szecsenyi PegaPoll permite acceder a funcionalidades que no están correctamente restringidas por las ACL. Este problema afecta a PegaPoll: desde n/a hasta 1.0.2.

The PegaPoll plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data that can lead to privilege escalation due to a missing capability check in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.2. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update arbitrary options on the WordPress site. This can be leveraged to update the default role for registration to administrator and enable user registration for attackers to gain administrative user access to a vulnerable site.

*Credits: Mika (Patchstack Alliance)

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

Complete

Integrity

Complete

Availability

Complete

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:Attend

Exploitation

None

Automatable

Yes

Tech. Impact

Total

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2024-10-24 CVE Reserved
2024-10-25 CVE Published
2024-10-30 EPSS Updated
2024-10-31 CVE Updated
2024-11-05 First Exploit
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date

CWE

CWE-862: Missing Authorization

CAPEC

CAPEC-1: Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by ACLs

References (2)

URL	Tag	Source
https://patchstack.com/database/vulnerability/pegapoll/wordpress-pegapoll-plugin-1-0-2-arbitrary-option-update-to-privilege-escalation-vulnerability?_s_id=cve	Vdb Entry

URL	Date	SRC
https://github.com/RandomRobbieBF/CVE-2024-50490	2024-11-05

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Pegapoll Search vendor "Pegapoll"		Pegapoll Search vendor "Pegapoll" for product "Pegapoll"				>= 0.0.0 <= 1.0.2 Search vendor "Pegapoll" for product "Pegapoll" and version " >= 0.0.0 <= 1.0.2"		en		Affected