WP Helper Premium <= 4.6.1 - Missing Authorization in whp_smtp_send_mail_test

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2024-9065
CVSS Medium (5.3)
Publicly Published October 9, 2024
Last Updated April 22, 2025
Researcher Francesco Carlucci
Description

The WP Helper Premium plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'whp_smtp_send_mail_test' function in all versions up to, and including, 4.6.1. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to send emails containing any content and originating from the vulnerable WordPress instance to any recipient. CVE-2025-24737 is likely a duplicate of this issue.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wp-helper-lite (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 4.6.1
Patched Version
  • 4.6.2
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