CVE-2024-12922 describes a critical privilege escalation vulnerability in the Altair theme for WordPress, affecting all versions up to and including 5.2.4. This flaw, rated 9.8 CVSS (Critical), allows unauthenticated attackers to modify arbitrary WordPress options due to a missing capability check. By leveraging this, attackers can enable user registration and set the default role to administrator, thereby gaining full administrative access to vulnerable sites. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are public exploit tools or significant community discussion available.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 0, <= 5.2.4CPE match | cpe:2.3:a:themegoods:altair:*:*:*:*:*: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
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