# CVE-2024-13361: Missing authorization in AI Puffer – Your AI engine for WordPress (formerly AI Power)

> Authenticated subscribers can upload images with malicious shortcodes, leading to arbitrary code execution due to missing capability checks.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L`)
- **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:** 22 Jan 2025
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-q9w3-c433-527w

## What is CVE-2024-13361?

CVE-2024-13361 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in senols AI Puffer – Your AI engine for WordPress (formerly AI Power), published on 22 Jan 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The AI Power: Complete AI Pack plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to a missing capability check on the wpaicg_save_image_media function in all versions up to, and including, 1.8.96. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to upload image files and embed shortcode attributes in the image_alt value that will execute when sending a POST request to the attachment page.

Weakness: CWE-862 (Missing Authorization)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-13361?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Aipower Aipower.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-13361?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-13361 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-13361 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-13361 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in senols AI Puffer – Your AI engine for WordPress (formerly AI Power)

- [CVE-2025-0428](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-0428/): AI Power: Complete AI Pack <= 1.8.96 - Authenticated (Admin+) PHP Object Injection via wpaicg_export_prompts (high 7.2)
- [CVE-2025-0429](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-0429/): AI Power: Complete AI Pack <= 1.8.96 - Authenticated (Admin+) PHP Object Injection via wpaicg_export_ai_forms (high 7.2)
- [CVE-2024-37465](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-37465/): WordPress AI Power: Complete AI Pack – Powered by GPT-4 plugin <= 1.8.66 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability (medium 6.5)
- [CVE-2024-13360](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-13360/): AI Power: Complete AI Pack <= 1.8.96 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Server-Side Request Forgery (medium 5.4)
- [CVE-2023-51527](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-51527/): WordPress GPT3 AI Content Writer Plugin <= 1.8.2 is vulnerable to Sensitive Data Exposure (medium 5.3)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-13361 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-13361 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in senols AI Puffer – Your AI engine for WordPress (formerly AI Power), published on 22 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-2024-13361 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: senols AI Puffer – Your AI engine for WordPress (formerly AI Power). 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-2024-13361/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-13361/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-13361
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-13361
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-13361

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