CVE-2024-9824 Missing authorization in ImagePress – Image Gallery
Authenticated subscribers can delete arbitrary posts and update titles due to missing capability checks in the ImagePress WordPress plugin.
- 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-2024-9824?
CVE-2024-9824 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in butterflymedia ImagePress – Image Gallery, published on 12 Oct 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The ImagePress – Image Gallery plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification and loss of data due to a missing capability check on the 'ip_delete_post' and 'ip_update_post_title' functions in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.2. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to delete arbitrary posts and update post titles.
Weakness: CWE-862
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-9824?
How do I fix CVE-2024-9824?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-9824 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-2024-9824 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-9824 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-7q29-5pqw-mvcf.