CVE-2024-11936
CVSS 3.1 Score 8.8 of 10 (high)
Details
Published Jan 26, 2025
Updated: Feb 4, 2025
CWE ID 862
Summary
CVE-2024-11936 is a vulnerability affecting the Zox News theme for WordPress. This issue allows authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access or higher, to unauthorizedly modify options due to a missing capability check on the 'backup_options' and 'restore_options' functions. This can lead to privilege escalation, enabling attackers to update the default role for registration to administrator and gain administrative user access to vulnerable sites. All WordPress versions up to and including 3.16.0 are impacted by this vulnerability.
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