CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-13423
5.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2025-03-05
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-862
Description
The Sparkling theme for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized plugin activation/deactivation due to a missing capability check on the 'sparkling_activate_plugin' and 'sparkling_deactivate_plugin' functions in versions up to, and including, 2.4.9. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to activate/deactivate arbitrary plugins.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-862 Missing Authorization weakness
References
- https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sparkling/2.4.9/inc/welcome-screen/class-sparkling-welcome.php#L69 themes.trac.wordpress.org
- https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sparkling/2.4.9/inc/welcome-screen/class-sparkling-welcome.php#L82 themes.trac.wordpress.org
- https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/266657/#file3 themes.trac.wordpress.org
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/1fa8dba0-0227-428d-a6de-c4247c40e481?source=cve www.wordfence.com