What is CVE-2024-4037?

CVE-2024-4037 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Opajaap Wp Photo Album Plus, classified under Code Injection. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2024-05-24.

How severe is CVE-2024-4037?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

RCE in Opajaap Wp Photo Album Plus

CVE-2024-4037

The WP Photo Album Plus plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary shortcode execution in all versions up to, and including, 8.7.02.003. This is due to the plugin allowing unauthenticated users to execute an action that does not properly validate a value before running do_shortcode. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary shortcodes.

Vulnerability class: RCE (Remote Code Execution)

Published 2024-05-24 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.005 (41.3th percentile), scored 2026-11-03.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 41st percentile — 41.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.005 · newest: 0.005 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Opajaap Wp Photo Album Plus — versions 0
Wppa Wp Photo Album Plus

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-94 — Code Injection

References

www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/3d6b95ee-0a0d-49f7-83b1-4716e… (Third Party Advisory)
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-photo-album-plus/trunk/wppa-ajax.php (Product)
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset (Patch)
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset (Patch)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-4037?: CVE-2024-4037 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Opajaap Wp Photo Album Plus, classified under Code Injection. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2024-05-24.
How severe is CVE-2024-4037?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.