# CVE-2024-6069: Pie Register - Basic <= 3.8.3.4 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Plugin Installation

> Authenticated subscribers can install arbitrary plugins due to missing capability checks, potentially leading to code execution on the server.

- **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:** 9 Jul 2024
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-mh82-x7hm-w8rm

## What is CVE-2024-6069?

CVE-2024-6069 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in genetechproducts Pie Register – User Registration, Profiles & Content Restriction, published on 9 Jul 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The Registration Forms – User Registration Forms, Invitation-Based Registrations, Front-end User Profile, Login Form & Content Restriction plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized arbitrary plugin installation due to a missing capability check on the pieregister_install_addon function in all versions up to, and including, 3.8.3.4. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to install arbitrary plugins. As a result attackers might achieve code execution on the targeted server

Weakness: CWE-862 (Missing Authorization)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-6069?


## How do I fix CVE-2024-6069?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-6069 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-6069 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-6069 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-6069 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-6069 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in genetechproducts Pie Register – User Registration, Profiles & Content Restriction, published on 9 Jul 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-2024-6069 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: genetechproducts Pie Register – User Registration, Profiles & Content Restriction. 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-2024-6069/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-6069/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-6069
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-6069
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-6069

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-6069/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.