# CVE-2024-1716: Admin Bar Remover <= 1.0.2.2 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Settings Update

> Authenticated subscribers can modify admin bar settings due to missing capability checks in the Admin Bar Remover WordPress plugin.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N`)
- **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:** 2 May 2024
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-4p6f-vcv4-9hrh

## What is CVE-2024-1716?

CVE-2024-1716 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in litonice13 Admin Bar Editor – Toolbar Customization with User Role based access & Custom menus, published on 2 May 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The Admin Bar Remover plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the update_form() function in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.2.2. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to enable or disable the admin bar on the front-end of the site.

Weakness: CWE-862 (Missing Authorization)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-1716?


## How do I fix CVE-2024-1716?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-1716 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-1716 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-1716 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-1716 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-1716 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in litonice13 Admin Bar Editor – Toolbar Customization with User Role based access & Custom menus, published on 2 May 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-1716 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: litonice13 Admin Bar Editor – Toolbar Customization with User Role based access & Custom menus. 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-2024-1716/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-1716/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-1716
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-1716
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-1716

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-1716/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.