# CVE-2024-12821: Media Manager for UserPro <= 3.12.0 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Options Update

> Authenticated subscribers can update arbitrary options to escalate privileges to administrator due to missing capability checks.

- **Severity:** High 8.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 30 Jan 2025
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-j4mf-rp8x-w2c3

## What is CVE-2024-12821?

CVE-2024-12821 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in DeluxeThemes Media Manager for UserPro, published on 30 Jan 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The Media Manager for UserPro plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data that can lead to privilege escalation due to a missing capability check on the upm_upload_media() function in all versions up to, and including, 3.12.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to update arbitrary options on the WordPress site. This can be leveraged to update the default role for registration to administrator and enable user registration for attackers to gain administrative user access to a vulnerable site.

Weakness: CWE-862 (Missing Authorization)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-12821?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Userproplugin Media Manager.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-12821?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-12821 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-12821 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-12821 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in DeluxeThemes Media Manager for UserPro

- [CVE-2024-12822](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-12822/): Media Manager for UserPro <= 3.12.0 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Arbitrary Options Update (critical 9.8)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-12821 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-12821 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in DeluxeThemes Media Manager for UserPro, published on 30 Jan 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-12821 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: DeluxeThemes Media Manager for UserPro. 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-2024-12821/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-12821/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-12821
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-12821
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-12821

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-12821/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.