CVE-2024-1290 | Formidable Registration < 2.12 - Contributor+ Arbitrary User Password Reset To Account Takeover

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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 Last update: 2025-05-09 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Analyzed，CVE State: published
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CVE-2024-1290 is rated High Exploit Risk (62.5/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.43%). 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

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Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2024-1290

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
— nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2024-1290

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2025-09-18 0.55% 0.43% -0.12%
2 2025-07-31 0.40% 0.55% +0.14%
3 2025-04-20 — 0.40% —

Full EPSS history (10 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2024-1290

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
6.5 3.1 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:L)
A normal user session is enough; they don’t have to be admin.
User interaction (UI:N)
Nobody has to click “OK” or open a trap file; it can work without a victim helping.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:H)
Serious risk that confidential data gets exposed in a big way.
Integrity (I:N)
Data isn’t meaningfully altered or forged.
Availability (A:N)
Service keeps running; no real outage angle.
 2.8 3.6 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2024-1290

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2024-1290

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
strategy11 user_registration_forms < 2.12 cpe:2.3:a:strategy11:user_registration_forms:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

References for CVE-2024-1290

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