# CVE-2024-9598: AMP for WP – Accelerated Mobile Pages <= 1.0.99.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Privilege Escalation

> Unauthenticated attackers can exploit CSRF to steal admin cookies and escalate privileges by tricking administrators into clicking a link.

- **Severity:** High 8.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 25 Oct 2024
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-qr32-hx8f-hm76

## What is CVE-2024-9598?

CVE-2024-9598 is a high-severity vulnerability in mohammed_kaludi AMP for WP – Accelerated Mobile Pages, published on 25 Oct 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

The AMP for WP – Accelerated Mobile Pages plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.99.1. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the 'proxy' function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to send the logged in user's cookies to their own server via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Weakness: CWE-352 (Cross-Site Request Forgery)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-9598?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Ampforwp Accelerated Mobile Pages.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-9598?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-9598 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-9598 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-9598 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in mohammed_kaludi AMP for WP – Accelerated Mobile Pages

- [CVE-2024-1043](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-1043/): AMP for WP <= 1.0.93.1 - Authenticated(Contributor+) Arbitrary Post Deletion via amppb_remove_saved_layout_data (medium 6.5)
- [CVE-2024-6896](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-6896/): Cross-site scripting in AMP for WP – Accelerated Mobile Pages (medium 6.4)
- [CVE-2024-11254](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-11254/): AMP for WP – Accelerated Mobile Pages <= 1.1.1 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (medium 6.1)
- [CVE-2024-0587](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-0587/): Accelerated Mobile Pages <= 1.0.92.1 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (medium 6.1)
- [CVE-2021-23150](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-23150/): Cross-site scripting in AMP for WP – Accelerated Mobile Pages (WordPress plugin) (medium 4.8)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-9598 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-9598 is a high-severity vulnerability in mohammed_kaludi AMP for WP – Accelerated Mobile Pages, published on 25 Oct 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-9598 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: mohammed_kaludi AMP for WP – Accelerated Mobile Pages. 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-2024-9598/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-9598/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-9598
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-9598
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-9598

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-9598/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.