CVE-2024-11972 is a critical vulnerability in the Hunk Companion WordPress plugin versions prior to 1.9.0. It allows unauthenticated attackers to install and activate arbitrary plugins from the WordPress.org repository, including vulnerable or closed versions. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL), this flaw has a network attack vector, low complexity, and can lead to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The vulnerability is actively exploited in the wild, with public exploit code available (EDB-52259, Nuclei templates), and has garnered significant community discussion and media coverage, indicating widespread awareness and ongoing attacks.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 1.9.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:themehunk:hunk_companion:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.