NitroPack <= 1.17.0 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Limited Options Update

8.1
Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2024-11848
CVSS 8.1 (High)
Publicly Published January 14, 2025
Last Updated January 15, 2025
Researcher Sean Murphy

Description

The NitroPack plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'nitropack_dismiss_notice_forever' AJAX action in all versions up to, and including, 1.17.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to update arbitrary options to a fixed value of '1' which can activate certain options (e.g., enable user registration) or modify certain options in a way that leads to a denial of service condition.

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Vulnerability Details for NitroPack – Caching & Speed Optimization for Core Web Vitals, Defer CSS & JS, Lazy load Images and CDN

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug nitropack (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 1.17.6, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 1.17.0
Patched Version
  • 1.17.6

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