CVE-2024-9531 Missing authorization in MultiVendorX – WooCommerce Multivendor Marketplace Solutions

Medium 4.3 Published 24 Oct 2024 Updated 8 Apr 2026

Authenticated subscribers can send unauthorized vendor profile deletion emails to administrators due to missing capability checks.

Exploited in the wild: Not known
Login needed: Any signed-in user
Attackable: Over the internet
Victim action needed: Not needed
Fix: None listed

What is CVE-2024-9531?

CVE-2024-9531 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in wcmp MultiVendorX – WooCommerce Multivendor Marketplace Solutions, published on 24 Oct 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The MultiVendorX – The Ultimate WooCommerce Multivendor Marketplace Solution plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'mvx_sent_deactivation_request' function in all versions up to, and including, 4.2.4. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to send a canned email to the site's administrator asking to delete the profile of an arbitrary vendor.

Weakness: CWE-862, CWE-285

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-9531?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Multivendorx Multivendorx.

How do I fix CVE-2024-9531?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-9531 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.

Is CVE-2024-9531 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-9531 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-fphv-qpcr-r7v5.