Demo Awesome <= 1.0.3 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Plugin Activation

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2024-13637
CVSS Medium (6.5)
Publicly Published April 1, 2025
Last Updated April 2, 2025
Researcher Krzysztof Zając
Description

The Demo Awesome plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the install_plugin function in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.3. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to install and activate arbitrary plugins..

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug demo-awesome (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Affected Version
  • <= 1.0.3
Patched Version
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