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CVE-2024-5997
Duplica <= 0.6 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Missing Authorization to Users/Posts Duplicates Creation
Medium4.3EPSS 0.36%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- Wordfence
Description
The Duplica – Duplicate Posts, Pages, Custom Posts or Users plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the duplicate_user and duplicate_post functions in all versions up to, and including, 0.6. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to create duplicates of users and posts/pages.
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 · Deferred | 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)
- 0.36% · top 70% 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
codexpert · Duplica – Duplicate Posts, Pages, Custom Posts or Users
- affected ≤ 0.6
References (3)
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/605fac87-e1e8-4354-a9d3-4440e54bc161?source=cve (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/duplica/tags/0.6/src/AJAX.php#L32 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/duplica/tags/0.6/src/AJAX.php#L98 (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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