CVE-2024-6698 is a privilege escalation vulnerability affecting all versions up to and including 1.7.0 of the FundEngine plugin for WordPress. The flaw stems from insufficient verification of user meta updates, allowing authenticated users with subscriber-level access or higher to modify their capabilities and gain administrator privileges. This vulnerability carries a high CVSS score of 8.8, indicating a network-based attack with low complexity that can lead to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 1.7.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:wpmet:fundengine:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.