Wp Password Policy
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Privilege escalation in the WP Password Policy plugin for WordPress up to version 3.7.1 allows authenticated attackers with subscriber-level access to escalate to Administrator by submitting a crafted POST request to the password-reset form endpoint. The vulnerability results from missing authorization checks and nonce verification in the `get_user()` function of the `Module_Password_Hint` class, which unconditionally calls `set_role()` with an attacker-supplied role. At time of analysis, no active exploitation or public exploit code was identified.
Privilege escalation in the WP Password Policy plugin for WordPress up to version 3.7.1 allows authenticated attackers with subscriber-level access to escalate to Administrator by submitting a crafted POST request to the password-reset form endpoint. The vulnerability results from missing authorization checks and nonce verification in the `get_user()` function of the `Module_Password_Hint` class, which unconditionally calls `set_role()` with an attacker-supplied role. At time of analysis, no active exploitation or public exploit code was identified.