The Ultimate WordPress Toolkit – WP Extended <= 3.0.11 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Remote Code Execution

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2024-11816
CVSS High (8.8)
Publicly Published January 7, 2025
Last Updated January 8, 2025
Researcher stealthcopter, theviper17y
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.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wpextended (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 3.0.11
Patched Version
  • 3.0.12
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