What is CVE-2024-12071?

CVE-2024-12071 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Evergreencontentposter Evergreen Content Poster, classified under Missing Authorization. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2025-01-18.

How severe is CVE-2024-12071?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.

Is CVE-2024-12071 known to be exploited?

2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Auth bypass in Evergreencontentposter Evergreen Content Poster

CVE-2024-12071

The Evergreen Content Poster – Auto Post and Schedule Your Best Content to Social Media plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized loss of data due to a missing capability check on the delete_network_post() function in all versions up to, and including, 1.4.4. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete arbitrary posts and pages.

Vulnerability class: Broken Access Control

EPSS: 0.004 (36.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-862 — Missing Authorization

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

security@wordfence.com (Third Party Advisory)
security@wordfence.com (Product)
security@wordfence.com (Product)
security@wordfence.com (Patch)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-12071?: CVE-2024-12071 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Evergreencontentposter Evergreen Content Poster, classified under Missing Authorization. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2025-01-18.
How severe is CVE-2024-12071?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-12071 known to be exploited?: 2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.