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.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-11816

CVSS Base Severity: HIGH

CVSS Base Score: 8.8

Affected Products

Vendor: wpextended

Product: The Ultimate WordPress Toolkit – WP Extended

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.06% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 30.36% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-02-06 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b3ce53e5-8666-4227-83d3-58f35db0ce68?source=cve
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wpextended/trunk/includes/modules/core_extensions/wpext_snippets/wpext_snippets.php#L705
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3213331%40wpextended&new=3213331%40wpextended&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=

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