# CVE-2024-12413: MarketKing — Ultimate WooCommerce Multivendor Marketplace Solution <= 2.0.00 - Missing Authorization

> Unauthenticated attackers can delete users, update settings, and approve users due to missing capability checks in the MarketKing WordPress plugin.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 25 Dec 2024
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-chv6-p335-2c63

## What is CVE-2024-12413?

CVE-2024-12413 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in webwizardsdev MarketKing — Ultimate WooCommerce Multivendor Marketplace Solution, published on 25 Dec 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The MarketKing — Ultimate WooCommerce Multivendor Marketplace Solution plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to missing capability checks on several functions like 'marketking_delete_team_member', 'marketkingrejectuser', 'marketking_save_profile_settings', and many more in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.00. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete users, update settings, approve users, and more.

Weakness: CWE-862 (Missing Authorization)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-12413?


## How do I fix CVE-2024-12413?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-12413 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-12413 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-12413 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-12413 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-12413 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in webwizardsdev MarketKing — Ultimate WooCommerce Multivendor Marketplace Solution, published on 25 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-2024-12413 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: webwizardsdev MarketKing — Ultimate WooCommerce Multivendor Marketplace Solution. 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-2024-12413/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-12413/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-12413
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-12413
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-12413

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-12413/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.