Super-admin escalation via unrestricted user-meta writes
Published Aug 3, 2024 · Updated Apr 8, 2026
Privilege escalation in Crocoblock JetFormBuilder 3.3.4.1 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to become multisite super admins. The Register User and Update User actions accept unrestricted user-meta field names and write their submitted values to the account. Exploitation requires an administrator on a WordPress multisite, where the write can add the account to the network's super administrators.
Summary
What happened
Privilege escalation in Crocoblock JetFormBuilder 3.3.4.1 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to become multisite super admins. The Register User and Update User actions accept unrestricted user-meta field names and write their submitted values to the account. Exploitation requires an administrator on a WordPress multisite, where the write can add the account to the network's super administrators.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-7291
- Published
- Aug 3, 2024
- Updated
- Apr 8, 2026
- Vendor
- Crocoblock
- Product
- JetFormBuilder
- Classifications
- CWE-269, T1098
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- admin
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Aug 3, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Apr 8, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=0 <=3.3.4.1
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