CVE-2024-13643
Feb. 11, 2025, 8:15 a.m.
8.8
High
Description
The Zox News - Professional WordPress News & Magazine Theme plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized data modification. This vulnerability can lead to privilege escalation and denial of service conditions due to missing capability checks on the backup_options() and reset_options() functions in all versions up to and including 3.17.0. This vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with Subscriber-level access and above to update and delete arbitrary option values on the WordPress site. Attackers can exploit this issue to update the default user role for registration to Administrator and enable user registration, thereby gaining administrative access to the vulnerable site. Additionally, they could delete critical options, causing errors that may disrupt the site's functionality and deny service to legitimate users.
Product(s) Impacted
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
| Zox News - Professional WordPress News & Magazine Theme |
|
Weaknesses
Common security weaknesses mapped to this vulnerability.
CWE-862
Missing Authorization
The product does not perform an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action.
Tags
CVSS Score
CVSS Data - 3.1
- Attack Vector: NETWORK
- Attack Complexity: LOW
- Privileges Required: LOW
- Scope: UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality Impact: HIGH
- Integrity Impact: HIGH
- Availability Impact: HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Timeline
Published: Feb. 11, 2025, 8:15 a.m.
Last Modified: Feb. 11, 2025, 8:15 a.m.
Last Modified: Feb. 11, 2025, 8:15 a.m.
Status : Awaiting Analysis
CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.
More infoSource
security@wordfence.com
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