What is CVE-2024-5997?

CVE-2024-5997 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Codexpert Duplica – Duplicate Posts, Pages, Custom Posts Or Users, classified under Missing Authorization. CVSS score: 4.3/10. Published 2024-07-18.

How severe is CVE-2024-5997?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.3 out of 10.

Is CVE-2024-5997 known to be exploited?

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

Auth bypass in Codexpert Duplica – Duplicate Posts, Pages, Custom Posts Or Users

CVE-2024-5997

The Duplica – Duplicate Posts, Pages, Custom Posts or Users plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the duplicate_user and duplicate_post functions in all versions up to, and including, 0.6. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to create duplicates of users and posts/pages.

Vulnerability class: Broken Access Control

EPSS: 0.004 (29.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Codexpert Duplica – Duplicate Posts, Pages, Custom Posts Or Users — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-862 — Missing Authorization

Public proof-of-concept exploits

20142995/nuclei-templates

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-5997?: CVE-2024-5997 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Codexpert Duplica – Duplicate Posts, Pages, Custom Posts Or Users, classified under Missing Authorization. CVSS score: 4.3/10. Published 2024-07-18.
How severe is CVE-2024-5997?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.3 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-5997 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.