Sparkling <= 2.4.9 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Arbitrary Plugin Activation/Deactivation

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2024-13423
CVSS Medium (5.3)
Publicly Published March 4, 2025
Last Updated April 10, 2025
Researcher mikemyers
Description

The Sparkling theme for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized plugin activation/deactivation due to a missing capability check on the 'sparkling_activate_plugin' and 'sparkling_deactivate_plugin' functions in versions up to, and including, 2.4.9. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to activate/deactivate arbitrary plugins.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Theme
Software Slug sparkling (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.4.9
Patched Version
  • 2.4.10
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