{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-13643 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2024-13643 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2024-13643 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in MVPThemes Zox News - Professional WordPress News \u0026 Magazine Theme, published on 11 Feb 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2024-13643 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2024-13643 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in MVPThemes Zox News - Professional WordPress News \u0026 Magazine Theme, published on 11 Feb 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-13643 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: MVPThemes Zox News - Professional WordPress News \u0026 Magazine Theme. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. 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.\n2. 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.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-13643/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-13643/index.md)","id":"CVE-2024-13643","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-13643/index.md","name":"CVE-2024-13643","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-3h9j-fvqm-h724"],"analysis":{"component_type":"cms_plugin","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["privilege_escalation","denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"WordPress theme plugin","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"Authenticated subscribers can modify arbitrary options to escalate privileges to administrator or disrupt site functionality due to missing capability checks.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"missing_authorization"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Wordfence","cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":8.8,"severity":"high","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-862","name":"Missing Authorization"}],"description":"The Zox News - Professional WordPress News \u0026 Magazine Theme plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized data modification. This vulnerability can lead to privilege escalation and denial of service conditions due to missing capability checks on the backup_options() and reset_options() functions in all versions up to and including 3.17.0. This vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with Subscriber-level access and above to update and delete arbitrary option values on the WordPress site. Attackers can exploit this issue to update the default user role for registration to Administrator and enable user registration, thereby gaining administrative access to the vulnerable site. Additionally, they could delete critical options, causing errors that may disrupt the site's functionality and deny service to legitimate users.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":null,"headline":"Zox News \u003c= 3.17.0 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Options Modification","id":"CVE-2024-13643","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"missing_authorization","year":"2024"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":3,"next":{"headline":"DethemeKit For Elementor \u003c= 2.1.8 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via De Gallery Widget","id":"CVE-2024-13644"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Cross-site scripting in Stratum Widgets for Elementor","id":"CVE-2024-13642"},"products":["Zox News - Professional WordPress News \u0026 Magazine Theme"],"published":"2025-02-11","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"total"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-04-08","vendors":["MVPThemes"]},"summary":"Authenticated subscribers can modify arbitrary options to escalate privileges to administrator or disrupt site functionality due to missing capability checks.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-13643/"}