CVEvulnerability

CVE-2024-12365

8.5 HIGH Published 2025-01-14 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2025-01-14
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
8.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-862

Description

The W3 Total Cache plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data due to a missing capability check on the is_w3tc_admin_page function in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.1. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to obtain the plugin's nonce value and perform unauthorized actions, resulting in information disclosure, service plan limits consumption as well as making web requests to arbitrary locations originating from the web application that can be used to query information from internal services, including instance metadata on cloud-based applications.

Affected configurations

• boldgrid w3 total cache (< 2.8.2)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-862 Missing Authorization weakness

References