CVE-2024-9195

Description

The WHMPress - WHMCS Client Area plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data that can lead to privilege escalation due to a missing capability check on the update_settings case in the /admin/ajax.php file in all versions up to, and including, 4.3-revision-3. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, 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.

Affected Systems

Vendor	whmpress
Product	whmcs_client_area
Affected Versions	before 4.3; 4.3
CWE ID	CWE-862

Mitigation

Apply the latest security patches from the vendor, restrict network exposure where applicable, and monitor for exploitation attempts.

Fix Instructions

References

• https://codecanyon.net/item/whmcs-client-area-whmpress-addon...
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c8...