CVE-2024-1290 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

The User Registration WordPress plugin before 2.12 does not prevent users with at least the contributor role from rendering sensitive shortcodes, allowing them to generate, and leak, valid password reset URLs, which they can use to take over any accounts.

Published: 2024-03-11

Score: 6.5 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

Unknown

User Registration

unaffected

Version	Status	Constraints
`0`	affected	< 2.12

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:strategy11:user_registration_forms:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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Remediation

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Tracking

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Advisories

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No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.0043.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/a60187d4-9491-435a-bc36-8dd348a1ffa3/

History

Fri, 09 May 2025 12:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Strategy11 Strategy11 user Registration Forms
Weaknesses		NVD-CWE-noinfo
CPEs		cpe:2.3:a:strategy11:user_registration_forms::::::wordpress::*
Vendors & Products		Strategy11 Strategy11 user Registration Forms

Fri, 01 Nov 2024 19:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		cvssV3_1 `{'score': 6.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N'}` ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Subscriptions

Strategy11 User Registration Forms

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2024-03-11T17:56:06.109Z

Updated: 2024-11-01T18:30:42.850Z

Reserved: 2024-02-06T20:07:07.982Z

Link: CVE-2024-1290

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-01T18:33:25.378Z

NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2024-03-11T18:15:18.003

Modified: 2025-05-09T12:18:34.000

Link: CVE-2024-1290

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-noinfo

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