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CVE-2016-11004

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-11004 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in the Elegant Themes Monarch plugin for WordPress, affecting versions prior to 1.2.7. This high-severity flaw (CVSS 8.8) allows a low-privileged attacker to gain elevated privileges over the network with low attack complexity, potentially leading to full compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While no active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion has been observed, the vulnerability's high impact warrants attention.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.2.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:elegantthemes:monarch:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.8HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.86%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
77.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0186 is in the 75th percentile among its peer group of 17,829 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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.

Media 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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

wptavern.com / critical-security-vulnerability-discovered-in-elegant-themes-products
Third Party Advisory
pritect.net / blog/elegant-themes-security-vulnerability
Third Party Advisory