Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-24649

CriticalPublic PoC

Published: 21 November 2022

Published
21 November 2022
Modified
30 April 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0043 63.1th percentile
Risk Priority 20 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-24649 is a critical-severity an unspecified weakness vulnerability in Wedevs Wp User Frontend. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked in the top 36.9% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

The WP User Frontend WordPress plugin before 3.5.29 uses a user supplied argument called urhidden in its registration form, which contains the role for the account to be created with, encrypted via wpuf_encryption(). This could allow an attacker having access…

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to the AUTH_KEY and AUTH_SALT constant (via an arbitrary file access issue for example, or if the blog is using the default keys) to create an account with any role they want, such as admin

CWE(s)
None listed

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

wedevs
wp user frontend
≤ 3.5.29

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References