WP Crontrol <= 1.16.1 - Remote Code Execution

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CVE CVE-2024-28850
CVSS High (7.5)
Publicly Published March 24, 2024
Last Updated April 25, 2025
Researcher Calvin Alkan
Description

The WP Crontrol plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Remote Code Execution in all versions up to, and including, 1.16.1 when another vulnerability is present on the site that allows access to editing the database. This makes it possible for attackers to execute code on the server. Please see the advisory in references for more in depth details.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wp-crontrol (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.16.1
Patched Version
  • 1.16.2
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