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CVE-2024-8853 Details

Description

The Webo-facto plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in versions up to, and including, 1.40 due to insufficient restriction on the 'doSsoAuthentification' function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to make themselves administrators by registering with a username that contains '-wfuser'.

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CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

CNA: [email protected]CVSS-B:9.8 CRITICALVector:CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL	Source(s)	Tag(s)
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/webo-facto-connector/tags/1.40/WeboFacto/Sso.php#L78	[email protected]	Product
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3153062/webo-facto-connector	[email protected]	Patch
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c1280ceb-9ce8-47fc-8fd3-6af80015dea9?source=cve	[email protected]	Third Party Advisory

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID	CWE Name	Source
NVD-CWE-noinfo	Insufficient Information to Classify Weakness	[email protected]
CWE-269	Improper Privilege Management	[email protected]

Affected Products

Product	Versions
medialibs webo-facto	< 1.41
CPE cpe:2.3:a:medialibs:webo-facto::::::wordpress::* Remediation No remediation found in references.

Change History

4 change records found show changes

Date	Action	Recorded By
Jun 17, 2026	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Jun 17, 2026	CVE Modified	CISA-ADP
Sep 25, 2024	Initial Analysis	[email protected]
Sep 20, 2024	New CVE Received	[email protected]