CVE-2024-11840 Missing authorization in RapidLoad AI – Optimize Web Vitals Automatically
Authenticated subscribers can modify plugin settings and perform SQL injection due to missing capability checks in the RapidLoad WordPress plugin.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-11840?
CVE-2024-11840 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in shakee93 RapidLoad AI – Optimize Web Vitals Automatically, published on 11 Dec 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The RapidLoad – Optimize Web Vitals Automatically plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data and modification of data due to a missing capability check on the uucss_data, update_rapidload_settings, wp_ajax_update_htaccess_file, uucss_update_rule, upload_rules, get_all_rules, update_titan_settings, preload_page, and activate_module functions in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.2. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to modify plugin settings or conduct SQL injection attacks.
Weakness: CWE-862
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-11840?
How do I fix CVE-2024-11840?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-11840 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.
Is CVE-2024-11840 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-11840 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-p2rx-fhcg-cp9f.