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CVE-2024-5449
WP Dark Mode – WordPress Dark Mode Plugin for Improved Accessibility, Dark Theme, Night Mode, and Social Sharing <= 5.0.4 - Missing Authorization
Medium4.3EPSS 0.34%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- Wordfence
Description
The WP Dark Mode – WordPress Dark Mode Plugin for Improved Accessibility, Dark Theme, Night Mode, and Social Sharing plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the wpdm_social_share_save_options function in all versions up to, and including, 5.0.4. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to update the plugin's settings.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| WordfenceCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium4.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium4.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.34% · top 72% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Weakness
Affected products
wppool · WP Dark Mode – Improve Accessibility with AI Powered Dark Theme
- affected ≤ 5.0.4
References (3)
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d7d20733-d61b-4b2f-8597-528644f0bc26?source=cve (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-dark-mode/trunk/includes/modules/social-share/class-social-share.php#L581 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3096290/wp-dark-mode/trunk?contextall=1&old=3073245&old_path=%2Fwp-dark-mode%2Ftrunk (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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