CVE-2024-56043

FAUCET Score

CVE-2024-56043 is a Critical (CVSS 9.8) Incorrect Privilege Assignment vulnerability in the VibeThemes WPLMS WordPress plugin, affecting all versions up to and including 1.9.9. This flaw allows unauthenticated attackers to achieve Privilege Escalation with high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no known active exploitation (KEV: No) and no public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB: None), the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion and media coverage, indicating awareness within the cybersecurity landscape.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		< 1.9.9.1CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:vibethemes:wordpress_learning_management_system::::::wordpress::*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

9.8CRITICAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Exploitability Score

3.9

Impact Score

5.9

CvssVersion

3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

0.63%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

46.3%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-27

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0063 is in the 27th percentile among its peer group of 36,897 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

patchstack.com / database/Wordpress/Plugin/wplms_plugin/vulnerability/wordpress-wplms-plugin-1-9-9-unauthenticated-privilege-escalation-vulnerability