What is CVE-2024-9636?

CVE-2024-9636 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Pickplugins Post Grid And Gutenberg Blocks – Comboblocks, classified under Improper Privilege Management. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2025-01-15.

How severe is CVE-2024-9636?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

Is CVE-2024-9636 known to be exploited?

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

Privilege escalation in Pickplugins Post Grid And Gutenberg Blocks – Comboblocks

CVE-2024-9636

The Post Grid and Gutenberg Blocks plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in versions 2.2.85 to 2.3.3. This is due to the plugin not properly restricting what user meta can be updated during profile registration. This m…

Vulnerability class: Privilege Escalation

EPSS: 0.008 (51.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Pickplugins Post Grid And Gutenberg Blocks – Comboblocks — versions 2.2.85

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-269 — Improper Privilege Management

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-9636?: CVE-2024-9636 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Pickplugins Post Grid And Gutenberg Blocks – Comboblocks, classified under Improper Privilege Management. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2025-01-15.
How severe is CVE-2024-9636?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-9636 known to be exploited?: 2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.