CVE-2026-120070 Escalada de privilegios en User Frontend vía el parámetro post_content
El plugin User Frontend para WordPress permite a atacantes autenticados con nivel Subscriber o superior escalar privilegios mediante el parámetro post_content de submit_post(). La lista de bloqueo de shortcodes protegidos se elude insertando un byte de control en el nombre del shortcode, que luego se almacena y ejecuta.
CVSS 3.1
- Probabilidad de explotación · EPSS del 09/110,3 % · percentil 23
- Explotada activamenteNo confirmada
- Exploit públicoNo conocido
Afectados
wedevs User Frontend – Membership, User Registration, User Profile, User Directory & Content Restriction wi
hasta 4.3.13
Qué hacer
- Verificá si usás User Frontend – Membership, User Registration, User Profile, User Directory & Content Restriction wi y en qué versión.
- Actualizá a la versión corregida que indique el fabricante en su aviso o aplicá su mitigación.
- Revisá registros y accesos de los sistemas expuestos para descartar un uso previo.
Calculadora CVSS
CVSS 3.1 · 8.8 ALTA
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Vector de ataqueRed
- Complejidad del ataqueBaja
- Privilegios requeridosBajos
- Interacción del usuarioNinguna
- AlcanceSin cambio
- ConfidencialidadAlta
- IntegridadAlta
- DisponibilidadAlta
Descripción original
The User Frontend – Membership, User Registration, User Profile, User Directory & Content Restriction with Frontend Post Submission plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 4.3.13 via the `post_content` parameter of the `submit_post()` function. The vulnerability exists because the protected-shortcode blocklist guard inspects the `sanitize_textarea_field()` copy of the submitted `post_content`, while the copy actually persisted to the database is processed through `wp_kses()`, whose `wp_kses_no_null()` step strips C0 control bytes — allowing an attacker to inject a single `\x01` byte inside the `[wpuf-registration]` tag name to defeat the `strpos()` blocklist check while the clean, functional shortcode is stored verbatim; `strip_shortcodes()` does not neutralize the stored shortcode either, because the Frontend container that registers it via `add_shortcode()` is only instantiated when `is_admin()` is false, and `admin-ajax` requests have `is_admin() === true`. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to inject a `[wpuf-registration role="editor"]` shortcode into a published post, causing a live Editor-role registration form to be rendered publicly on the frontend that any visitor — or the attacker themselves — can submit to mint a WordPress Editor account with an immediately active privileged session when the default `autologin_after_registration` setting is enabled.
Referencias (6)
- www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f84b6767-f254-45c9-8e78-36d4beac2a98?so…
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-user-frontend/tags/4.3.13/includes/Ajax/Frontend_Fo…
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-user-frontend/tags/4.3.13/includes/Ajax/Frontend_Fo…
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-user-frontend/tags/4.3.13/includes/Frontend/Registr…
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-user-frontend/tags/4.3.13/includes/Frontend/Registr…
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3770255/wp-user-frontend/trunk/includes/Ajax/Fronten…
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