CVE-2024-28000 is a critical Incorrect Privilege Assignment vulnerability in the LiteSpeed Cache WordPress plugin, affecting versions 1.9 through 6.3.0.1. This flaw allows unauthenticated attackers to achieve privilege escalation, potentially leading to full administrative control over millions of WordPress sites. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL) and an EPSS score indicating high exploitability, this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity. Exploit code is publicly available via ExploitDB and Nuclei templates, and there is significant community discussion and media coverage, including reports of active exploitation.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 1.9, < 6.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:litespeedtech:litespeed_cache:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* | ||
>= 0, <= 6.3.0.1CPE match | cpe:2.3:a:litespeedtech:litespeed_cache:*:*:*:*:*: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.