# CVE-2024-11721: Frontend Admin by DynamiApps <= 3.24.5 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation

> Unauthenticated attackers can create administrative accounts via insufficient role controls in Frontend Admin plugin forms if public access is enabled.

- **Severity:** High 8.1 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 14 Dec 2024
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-vfr2-h7h9-x9fc

## What is CVE-2024-11721?

CVE-2024-11721 is a high-severity vulnerability in shabti Frontend Admin by DynamiApps, published on 14 Dec 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The Frontend Admin by DynamiApps plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 3.24.5. This is due to insufficient controls on the user role select field when utilizing the 'Role' field in a form. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to create new administrative user accounts, even when the administrative user role has not been provided as an option to the user, granted that unauthenticated users have been provided access to the form.

Weakness: CWE-269 (Improper Privilege Management)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-11721?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Dynamiapps Frontend Admin.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-11721?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-11721 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-11721 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-11721 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in shabti Frontend Admin by DynamiApps

- [CVE-2023-51411](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-51411/): WordPress Frontend Admin by DynamiApps Plugin <= 3.18.3 is vulnerable to Arbitrary File Upload (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2024-3729](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-3729/): Frontend Admin by DynamiApps <= 3.19.4 - Improper Missing Encryption Exception Handling to Form Manipulation (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2024-11720](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-11720/): Frontend Admin by DynamiApps <= 3.24.5 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (high 7.2)
- [CVE-2025-26987](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-26987/): WordPress Frontend Admin by DynamiApps plugin <= 3.25.17 - Reflected Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability (high 7.1)
- [CVE-2024-11722](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-11722/): Frontend Admin by DynamiApps <= 3.25.1 - Unauthenticated SQL Injection (medium 5.9)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-11721 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-11721 is a high-severity vulnerability in shabti Frontend Admin by DynamiApps, published on 14 Dec 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-11721 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: shabti Frontend Admin by DynamiApps. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-11721/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-11721/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-11721
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-11721
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-11721

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Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.