CVE-2024-11816

HIGH

WP Extended <3.0.11 - Authenticated RCE

Title source: llm

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 (3)

Core 3

Core References

Product

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wpextended/trunk/includes/modules/core_extensions/wpext_snippets/wpext_snippets.php#L705

Patch

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3213331%40wpextended&new=3213331%40wpextended&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=

Third Party Advisory

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b3ce53e5-8666-4227-83d3-58f35db0ce68?source=cve

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8

EPSS 0.0074

EPSS Percentile 50.0%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Details

CWE

CWE-862

Status published

Products (2)

wpextended/The Ultimate WordPress Toolkit – WP Extended < 3.0.11

wpextended/ultimate_wordpress_toolkit < 3.0.12

Published Jan 08, 2025

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026