CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-4898
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2024-06-12
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-862
Description
The InstaWP Connect – 1-click WP Staging & Migration plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary option updates due to a missing authorization checks on the REST API calls in all versions up to, and including, 0.1.0.38. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to connect the site to InstaWP API, edit arbitrary site options and create administrator accounts.
Affected configurations
• instawp instawp connect (< 0.1.0.39)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-862 Missing Authorization weakness
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/instawp-connect/tags/0.1.0.38/includes/class-instawp-rest-api.php#L926 Patch
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/92a00fb4-7b50-43fd-ac04-5d6e29336e9c?source=cve Third Party Advisory
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/instawp-connect/tags/0.1.0.38/includes/class-instawp-rest-api.php#L926 Patch
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/92a00fb4-7b50-43fd-ac04-5d6e29336e9c?source=cve Third Party Advisory