What is CVE-2024-31211?

CVE-2024-31211 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Wordpress, classified under Deserialization of Untrusted Data. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2024-04-04.

How severe is CVE-2024-31211?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Is CVE-2024-31211 known to be exploited?

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

Deserialization in Wordpress

CVE-2024-31211

WordPress is an open publishing platform for the Web. Unserialization of instances of the `WP_HTML_Token` class allows for code execution via its `__destruct()` magic method. This issue was fixed in WordPress 6.4.2 on December 6th, 2023. V…

Vulnerability class: Insecure Deserialization

EPSS: 0.027 (84.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Wordpress
Wordpress Wordpress-develop — versions >= 6.4.0 < 6.4.2

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-502 — Deserialization of Untrusted Data

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

security-advisories@github.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-31211?: CVE-2024-31211 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Wordpress, classified under Deserialization of Untrusted Data. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2024-04-04.
How severe is CVE-2024-31211?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-31211 known to be exploited?: 5 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.