CVE-2024-32555
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedIncorrect Privilege Assignment vulnerability in InspiryThemes Easy Real Estate easy-real-estate allows Privilege Escalation.This issue affects Easy Real Estate: from n/a through <= 2.2.9.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · moderate confidenceThe Easy Real Estate WordPress plugin versions up to 2.2.9 contain an Incorrect Privilege Assignment vulnerability that allows privilege escalation. This means the plugin improperly assigns user roles or capabilities, likely granting elevated permissions (such as administrator-level access) to users who should only have lower-privileged roles like subscribers or guests.
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CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Verify Easy Real Estate plugin is installedIn WordPress admin, go to Plugins > Installed Plugins and search for 'Easy Real Estate' or check the file /wp-content/plugins/ for the ierp-easy-real-estate directoryAffected if The plugin directory exists and the plugin is active in WordPress
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Identify the installed plugin versionIn WordPress admin Plugins list, find Easy Real Estate and read the version number displayed under the plugin name, or open the main plugin PHP file and look for the 'Version' header in the plugin commentsAffected if Version is 2.2.9 or lower (the vulnerability exists in versions up to 2.2.9)
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Review user accounts for unexpected administrator roleGo to Users > All Users in WordPress admin and examine the Role column. Check for any administrator accounts that you did not create, or users who previously had subscriber/guest roles but now show administratorAffected if There are administrator accounts that were not created by known administrators, or lower-privileged users now have administrator role
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Inspect user capabilities via databaseQuery the wp_usermeta table: SELECT user_id, meta_key, meta_value FROM wp_usermeta WHERE meta_key = 'wp_capabilities' AND meta_value LIKE '%administrator%'; compare results against expected authorized adminsAffected if Users who should not have administrator capabilities are showing 'administrator' in their capabilities metadata
If the Easy Real Estate plugin version is 2.2.9 or lower and is active, combined with unexpected administrator accounts or modified user capabilities, the environment is likely affected by this privilege escalation vulnerability.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataUpdate to the latest version of Easy Real Estate if a patched release is available; otherwise, disable the plugin until a fix is released and consider restricting plugin access to trusted administrators only.
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- Review / QA2.0 h
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