Description

The Categorify plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the categorifyAjaxUpdateFolderPosition in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.7.4. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to update the folder position of categories as well as update the metadata of other taxonomies.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-1653

CVSS Base Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS Base Score: 4.3

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Affected Products

Vendor: frenify

Product: Categorify – WordPress Media Library Category & File Manager

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.1% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 29.35% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-05-21 (when was this score calculated)

Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization (SSVC)

SSVC Exploitation: none

SSVC Technical Impact: partial

SSVC Automatable: false

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-1653
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/45badd20-1ba8-44be-8a7c-2ce21261e208?source=cve
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3034410/categorify

Timeline