The Ultimate WordPress Toolkit – WP Extended <= 3.0.11 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Remote Code Execution

8.8
Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2024-11816
CVSS 8.8 (High)
Publicly Published January 7, 2025
Last Updated January 8, 2025
Researchers stealthcopter
theviper17y

Description

The Ultimate WordPress Toolkit – WP Extended plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Remote Code Execution in version 3.0.11. This is due to a missing capability check on the 'wpext_handle_snippet_update' function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to execute code on the server providing an admin has created at least one code snippet.

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Vulnerability Details for The Ultimate WordPress Toolkit – WP Extended

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wpextended (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 3.0.12, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 3.0.11
Patched Version
  • 3.0.12

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